Life in the Sea (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Life in the Sea The history of every science affords examples of the enormous stimulus to further research which arises from the discovery of some new and sound method of research, and two such advances in methods have transformed marine biology during the last ten years. Late in the eighties of last century some German physiologists began to estimate the quantity of microscopic life contained in the sea under each square metre of surface, and nets and other apparatus were invented for this purpose. About the beginning of the nineties some Scandinavian geographers and zoologists also began to investigate the microscopic life of the sea with respect to the physical conditions of the water. The object of the Kiel quantitative plankton investigations was to estimate the production of a sea area in much the same way as a scientific agriculturalist attempts to estimate the productivity of a cultivated land area, and that of the Scandinavian hydrographers was to attempt to forecast seasonal changes in the climatic conditions of their countries by studying the currents of the sea. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.