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Food of Oceanic Animals

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MY attention has been directed to a paragraph in one of the late numbers of NATURE referring to Professor Dickie's interesting remarks on the bathymetrical distribution of Algæ, and raising the question of the mode of nutrition of the great sheet of animal life, which is now shown to extend over the bottom of the sea at all depths.

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THOMSON, W. Food of Oceanic Animals. Nature 1, 315–316 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/001315d0

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