The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-31
TO CAPTURE MARINE WONDERS
UNIQUE Plan FOR THE FISH COM
MISSION RON THIS II NsMER.

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furr.pt-.Yo collect and study Gil
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size and Strength vs.
AAaruas and other Curious Mon
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stream OF warm N"''' '''~
North1Vard From the tropics-in-
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Washington July 2S.-The exploration
nj marine tyoud. rIlud almost unknown
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tutoH OF ihe l"'''N ''"''S '''''
sion ID is a sion fulI OF strange Asnes
and other forms of life quite unfamiliar,
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o. warren 'i--S Jew
as yet been capture, 'N't'"''" 'i''
f.r Ngrh now information OF the utmost
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tenpialea 'Ale'i. .'.' 49,,
by Or. bdmpus' dIft ''"I o' ''e '''''7 'e''
station al Woods Hoe Mass
It is the business OF the FISH commits
sion stan al tho biological station TO stuoS
the habits ana lile history OF sea animals
and s,erv summer from thirty TO fifty
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over The country assemble tht'e 10 engage
in various investigations. OF these quite
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winch VIII 'e '''' 'e' -
HaWk-a vessel Speclali4 Atted lol 'l'0
sort of work contemplated, and provided
with elaborate apparatus for the capture
80 an .,rts rl-i,, mn
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pose IN view VIII ne 10 STUDY the Aiue
known fauna along the edge OF the CONT
Mental shelf
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10 MAKE 'li9 SiV"'' ~ "-''''i
planned that the eastern euse OF our con-
tineDt is not marked by the surf line of
the ocean If all the water Of the sea
IN .,--..- Inc.
"ei9 III ~ "P' ~
eastward from Atlantic Clly' n D. WIN
OUT descending more lhaH VV" iet'' Out a'
that distance out. you Wouln come 10 me
true edge or the great rama mass cdliru
North America. AEeh you Wouiu ma oe-
lore you n larry steep ME- sloplHs rap
Idly ike the slde OF q mountain range 10
the hoor OF the ocean Two ana nam
miles below.
Along the upper part OF TINS conu-
mental decAVltY, as II Is termed, runs
Eorthward stream OF warm wafer on
the shoreWard tlde OF Jhe Gun srean,
bathing with its tempered current mar
row belt of the slope. 1t comes directly
from The Gulf of Mexico, ana brings win
1t immense numbers OF tropical ana semi
tropical animals of all sorts, which never
go out of the warm stream; indeed they
cannot do so without being frozen to
death by the colder water lying on ether
side The river they lnhablt IS sand
wiched in between emily current from
Labrador on the west and the fugid
depths beneath the Gun stream on the
east.
The belt of the slope thus described Is
the wonderland referred to. The wa
ters that warm 1t are the home of my
RAIDS of brilliant-hued fishes such as in
habit the southern seas, while the bottom
sWarms with gaudy crabs, some OF them
Of gigantic size, queer species of the sea
urchin family formidable-iooking sea
spiders with Immensely long legs and
marine worms that equal III sorSeousnes5
the most brishtly-tinted flowers. All
along the Atlantic coast OF North Amerl-
ca runs this ribbon like extension of the
tropics, narrowing gradually until, as is
believed. is dleappeaTS entirely some dis