smithsonianlibraries:June 8th is World Oceans Day - a day to celebrate the oceans that connect and s
smithsonianlibraries:June 8th is World Oceans Day - a day to celebrate the oceans that connect and sustain all of us.Our colleagues at the Biodiversity Heritage Library have been leading up to today with a series of blog posts exploring historic publications that mark important milestones in the progress of marine bioscience research and ocean exploration.Top image: Whale shark from Illustrations of the zoology of South Africa… v.4 (1845)Middle top : radiolarians and jellyfish from Ernst Haeckle’s Kunstformen der Natur (1904)Middle bottom: giant squid from Cassell’s Natural History v.5-6 and cuttlefish from Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe Mollusques and Zoophytes Atlas (1833)Bottom: deep sea fish from Valdivia Expedition…1898-1899. Bd. 15, T. 1 -- source link
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