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Author Beebe, Charles William, 1877-1962.

Title Half mile down, by William Beebe. With 123 illustrations and 8 colored plates. Published under the auspices of the New York Zoological Society.

Imprint New York, Harcourt, Brace [c1934]

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  591.92 B391    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xix, 344 p. col. front., plates (part col.) ports., diagrs. 24 cm.
Note Map on front lining-paper and diagram on back lining-paper.
"This is the third volume to be published dealing with oceanographic researches on the life of the waters about Nonsuch, Bermuda ... These studies have been carried on by Dr. William Beebe and his staff, Mr. John Tee-Van, Miss Gloria Hollister and Miss Jocelyn Crane, of the Department of Tropical Research of the Zoological Society ... The present volume describes the various descents made by Dr. Beebe and Mr. Barton in the steel ball known as the bathysphere."--Pref.
Bibliography "History of diving bibliography, by Jocelyn Crane": p. 251.
Subject Marine animals -- Bermuda Islands.
Diving, Submarine.
Diving bells.
Nonsuch, Bermuda Islands.
Added Author Tee-Van, John.
Hollister, Gloria.
Crane, Jocelyn.
Barton, Otis.
New York Zoological Society.

 
    
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