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THE annual summer meeting of the Netherlands Zoological Society, which was held in Amsterdam on July I, was of more than usual interest on account of the fact that it was attended by all the members of the scientific staff of the Siboga expedition, who returned only a few weeks before from their one year's cruise in the different basins of the Indian Archipelago, during which they covered a distance of about 12,000 sea miles, i.e. about half the circumference of the globe. The track, as indicated on the accompanying Fig. 1, commenced at Soera-baja on March 7, 1899; it ended in the same port on February 27, 1900. The vessel, which is a cruiser belonging to the Dutch Royal Navy, was on its first trip, and before its departure was specially fitted up for the work of the cruise, both with a sounding apparatus of Le Blanc and of Lucas, with some 20 kilometres of wire rope for dredging purposes, and with all modern appliances for pelagic fishing, for plankton collection and for deep-sea work (a “sondeur à clef” of the Prince of Monaco, apparatus for obtaining sea-water from given depths according to Petterson and Sigsbee, Hensen's nets, &c.)
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H, A. The Cruise and Deep-Sea Exploration of the “Siboga” in the Indian Archipelago . Nature 62, 327–328 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/062327a0
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