TREASURES OF THE SEA.
GATHERED BY SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION. BY CABLE —PEESS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT NEW YORK, July 30. Hundreds of rare marine specimens, including 42 unknown to science, are on board the Arcturus. of the New York Zoological Society’s oceanographic expedition, which is returning after five months in the uncharted regions of the Atlantic and Pacific. . One exhibit is a bobbed hair fish; another is illuminated by 500 phosphorescent bulbs; a third is as feathery as T>. "william Beebe, the attributed much of the success to the four voung women accompanying the exnedition, who dived in the sharkmfested deep waters like men to seciire specimens. The trawling machine gathered the rarest fish at a depth of moie than five miles. Dr Beebe was unable to locate the elusive Sargasso Sea, which was sought, n r the Humboldt current- in the Pacific.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 1 August 1925, Page 5
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