The HMS Challenger collected massive amounts of data about the world’s oceans during its 19th-century voyage and laid the foundation for the fields of oceanography and marine biology. University of ...

THE description of the Polyzoa collected during the expedition of the Challenger was undertaken by Mr. Busk, and the first part of his Report, comprising the Cheilostomatous forms, or those in which ...

When was the first voyage of the Challenger? No, not the Space Shuttle — the original Challenger, a sea ship that sailed in 1872. The HMS Challenger traversed the world’s oceans for four years, drove ...

Every few days, the crew of the Challenger would dredge the ocean floor for sediment and specimens. Courtesy of The Trustees of the Natural History Museum. The H.M.S. Challenger spent just over three ...

A recent Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition off the coast of Uruguay discovered at least 30 suspected new species and ...

ON 21 DECEMBER 1872, the converted warship HMS Challenger embarked from Portsmouth, England, on the first ever global scientific survey of the seas. Researchers from the Royal Society of London ...

Threshold of the deep -- The desert under the sea -- The restless earth -- Kingdoms of mud and lime -- Climate triggers and Bermudan secrets -- Kelp and cold light -- The library of time -- The grim ...

English literature PhD Potter debuts with an elegant and impressive history of the Roma people. She traces how governments have sought to eject, eradicate, and assimilate the Continue reading » A ...

Apparently an off-print. W.B. Carpenter's 1888 book, Nature and man: essays scientific and philosophical, includes a "List of Dr. Carpenter's Writings" at the end. "Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger ...