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Cover Half Mile Down
Inside Back Cover of the book Half Mile Down (Beebe 1934). Illustration by John Tee-Van
Date : 21/08/2018
Affichages : 349
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Date : 20/09/2018
Affichages : 214
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Beebe & Barton in Barton's Bathysphere
William Beebe and Otis Barton in the Bathysphere
Date : 22/08/2018
Affichages : 260
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Plate I. Hatchet-fish from the Bathysphere. Painting by Else Bostelman.
Date : 21/08/2018
Affichages : 221
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Plate VI. Pale Round-Mouths pursuing a school of copepods. Painting by Else Bostelmann
Date : 21/08/2018
Affichages : 336
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Plate VII. Orange-lighted finger-squid catching laternfish. Painting by Else Bostelman.
Date : 21/08/2018
Affichages : 283
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Plate VIII. Avocet-Eel with its transparent young (Labichthys carinatus). Painting by Elsa Bostelmann.
Date : 21/08/2018
Affichages : 274
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Plankton Sampling on the Arcturus
photos by Ernst Schoedsack
Date : 22/08/2018
Affichages : 244
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The little sea devil of the Arcturus
Drawing by Dwight Franklin in The Arcturus Adventure
Date : 22/08/2018
Affichages : 243
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A blind Deep Sea Fish
Drawing by Isabele Cooper in The Arcturus Adventure
Date : 22/08/2018
Affichages : 235
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3 new species of Lantern-bearing Sea Devils from station 47
Drawing by Dwight Franklin in The Arcturus Adventure
Date : 22/08/2018
Affichages : 279
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Young fish taken at the surface in mid-ocean.
A. Mola mola, B. Holocentrus, C. Taractes. Painting by Don Dickerman in The Arcturus Adventure
Date : 22/08/2018
Affichages : 264
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Fig. A. Argyropelecus. A luminescent deep-sea fish with eyes directed upward. Fig. B. Sternoptyx. A common Deep-sea fish.
Painting by Helen Tee-Van in The Arcturus Adventure.
Date : 22/08/2018
Affichages : 241
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Butterflying Fish Cypselurus furcatus .
Painting by Helen Tee-Van in The Arcturus Adventure.
Date : 22/08/2018
Affichages : 322
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Fig. A. Squid throwing out a defensive smoke screen of sepia ink. Fig. B. Deep sea prawn emitting a lumniescent defensive cloud.
Painting by Helen Tee-Van in The Arcturus Adventure.
Date : 22/08/2018
Affichages : 275
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Beebe Fish Day Nite
"Luminous Surface Fish in Daylight and Darkness" An Eater-of-Stars (Astronesthes) in pursuit of two Lantern-fish (Myctophids). Painting by Helen Tee-Van. Plate V from the Arctus Adventure by William Beebe, 1926.
Date : 12/08/2018
Affichages : 263
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Arcturus Giant Ray (Manta birostris)
One Big Fish!
Date : 22/08/2018
Affichages : 259
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The lab on the Arcturus, presumably in calm seas or docked!
Date : 22/08/2018
Affichages : 253
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Diving Belle - Ruth Rose
Ruth Rose was the Arcturus Expedition 'Historian'. Onboard she met and latter married the expedition photographer Ernst Schoedsack. Together they worked on the 1933 film King Kong; she wrote the screenplay and he co-directed with Merien Cooper.
Date : 22/08/2018
Affichages : 229
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William Beebe Book Plate
Book plate (ex libris) of Wiliam Beebe, pioneer of underwater exploration. The odd bird depicted is Tetrapteryx- the hypothesized dinosaur-bird with wings on its rear legs now acknowledged as the likely anecestor of birds.
Date : 23/11/2016
Affichages : 832
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Night Fish by Else Bostelmann
Date : 20/09/2018
Affichages : 285
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