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THE use of the diving helmet, the glass-bottomed boat, and the under-water camera, has given new zest to the study of marine life, and the Haitian Expedition of the Department of Tropical Research of the New York Zoological Society could scarcely have chosen more promising ground for testing the value of a floating laboratory. The scientific results of the expedition are promised in due course, but in the meantime the Director has published this volume as a popular exposition of the methods and possibilities of a new line of investigation. It is picturesquely, if somewhat diffusely, written, and gives a fair impression ofthe varied interests of nearly five months' exploration in the sea and in the jungle. For the would-be explorer a series of useful appendices describes the equipment necessary, the apparatus and methods of submarine photography, and the cost of the expedition, which, including the schooner, outfit, and staff of nine for five months, amounted only to about £3000.
Beneath Tropic Seas: a Record of Diving among the Coral Reefs of Haiti.
Dr.
William
Beebe
By. Pp. xii + 234 + 39 plates. (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, Ltd., 1928.) 15s. net.
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Beneath Tropic Seas: a Record of Diving among the Coral Reefs of Haiti . Nature 124, 476 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124476c0
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