SCIENTIFIC QUEST
Studies in Arabian Sea BRITISH EXPEDITION (Rec. August 3, 5.5 p.m.) Official Wireless. Rugby, August 2. A scientific expedition to survey the Arabian Sea and North-West Indian Ocean is being organised, and will begin. operations next year. The expenses are being largely provided for under the will of the late Sir John Murray, whose researches during the Challenger expedition last century immensely extended scientific knowledge regarding the oceans of the world. Next year’s expedition will be led by Colonel Seymour Sewell, Director of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Parts of the Arabian Sea are of immense depth, though few soundings have been taken away from steamship routes. The main objects of the expedition will be to study the topography of the ocean bottom by echo soundings, and to search for traces of the hypothetical continent of Lemuria, supposed to have stretched.from India westwards. Oceanic fauna and currents will also be studied. The committee which Is arranging the expedition includes Admiral Douglas, Hydrographer of the Navy, and representatives of the geographical and natural history societies under the chairmanship of Mr. J. C. Murray.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 265, 4 August 1932, Page 9
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183SCIENTIFIC QUEST Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 265, 4 August 1932, Page 9
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