SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
SYDNEY, August 21. An American scientific expedition has arrived here.
It is going to the Great Barrier reef to work on the coral reef animals. It is under the auspices of the Carnegie Institution, Washington, and is in charge of Dr Mayer.
Among the subjects investigated will be phosphorescence in animals, the embryology of sea urchins and star fishes, and the relationship between the salt of sea water and the rata of transmission of impulses by nerves.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3102, 27 August 1913, Page 25
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