Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-12-20
THE KENNEBEC JOURNAL. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 90 1919
SEAS DEPTHS HIS DOMAIN.
Albert, Prince of Monaco, Lectures on
Study of Oceanography.

AlpeFt, Prince OF monaco, Lectures or
Study of Oceanography.
1t is not often that members of an
. American scientific institution have
an opportunity to hear reigning
prince, who is himself a scientist of
considerable fame, deliver an author
ative address upon such a topic as
MY Oceanographical Cruises" There
fore, the members of the American
Museum of Natural History eagerly
availed themselves of such an oppor-
tunity when the Prince of Monaco,
Albert l, lectured in the auditorium
of the Museum.
Wholly aside from the identity of
the lecturer, those who had the priv
ilege of attending the lecture We're
genuinely interested in its subject
matter, richly illustrated. as it was,
by stereopticon slides and moving pic
lures that showed with marvellous
vividness the life and color of the sea.
Prince Albert has dedicated his life
to the study of oceanography, and
devotes the large sums which he re-
ceives from the proprietors Of the sa-
sino in his tiny capital of Monte Car
10 to carrying on his researches in the
waters of the Atlantic-the only one
of the oceans in which he works, by
the way 1t is an idea of his that
to be thorough, scientist should
limit his studies to one particular
field, and he has found enough mat
ters for investigation in the North AT
lantic to keep him busy for more than
twenty years. to fill scores of scien-
tific books, and stock the wonderful
Oceanographical Museum which he
has founded a. Monte Carlo. 1t is the
only one of its kind in the world.
THE work | undertook about twen-
ty-six years ago. and in which have
been aided by many scientists, must
interest America as well as Europe.
he began. In the cause of it | have
employed four different vessels. In
the early part of 81 I first decided to
have a steamer, although my nauti-
cal taste did not care for one. There
was the Princess Alice, which lasted
about ten years; then another one of
about 1900 tons, and another one of
1900 tons For useful work, however,
I found that the best oceanographical
results cannot be obtained by heavy
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ings difficult in deep water"
For some time Prince Albert made
experiments with various appliances
for carrying on his work of research,
and with reference to this phase OF
the work he said I'VE spent many
wears trying to find new apparatus,
and finally We were obliged to invent
new instruments and new nets. We
have sent down instruments for pure
oeeanosraphy, to determine the zool-
ogy of the bottom of the sea. We al
so have an artist ON board ship, who
paints the color of the animal as soon
as it comes to the surface. And, as
an additional means of record, we
employ photography in color.
I'm our work OF research, we have
taken much interest in geographical
location of the species OF fishes. we
want to establish the complete geog-
raphy of these fishes. In our expert
ments we have found that, on the
bottom of the sea, species do not
vary very much. In the intermediate
DEPTHS it seems that there is much
gre ater variety. SO we have mace a
chart which shows very good curves
of the bottom of the sea.
+ At this point in his address the
Prince asked the question, Where
has life found its origin?' And de-
clared his belief that life was first
found in the sea. After many years
of work" he said, 'it seems TO me
that fife began in the sea. we per-
ceiye. now, in the sea an enormous
amount of life and a great number OF
species. On the surface of the earth
there is only one layer of life. In the
sea. a large number of layers may be
found. from the surface to the bot
tom of the sea. have found life al
the depth of $4,000 feet"
The second part of his address was
devoted to stereopticon views anu
moving pictures illustrating the
methods employed on board the HI
rondelle in the work of exploration
and some of the trophies OF the deep
captured in nets. and by other oe-
vices. One of the most interesting OF
the moving picture series showed the
canture of a whale, and the firing OF
the harpoon gun. These MINIS were
tbe only ones in existence, the Prince
told his audience.
The moving pictures of the sound
ing apparatus likewise proved eA-
tremely interesting.
1T takes about two hours ana
half" said the Prince, Ito make
deep-sea sounding.
> Then there were pictures of lumin-
ous fish. which gave out light, and
of other fish of curious shapes, deni-
zens of the greater deeps.