Edward Forbes' grave Dean Cemetery Professor Edward Forbes FRS, FGS (12 February 1815 – 18 November 1854) was a Manx naturalist. Read full biography of Edward Forbes →
As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an... →
The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms... →
Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as... →
The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for... →
Zero of Animal Life probably about 300 fathoms.
I have in hands, now, specimens of bottom from t he Gulf Stream, obtained by Lieutenant Craven, and I can say that they are among the most... →