Thomson (Charles Wyville & Murray, John). Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76, under the command of Captain George S. Nares and Captain Frank Tourle Thomson, 44 bound volumes (of 50), 1st edition, London, Edinburgh, etc.: HMSO for Longman & Co. [and others], 1880-95, approximately 3,000 plates, charts and maps, mostly lithographed, many tinted and many hand-coloured, some double-page and folding, largely unopened, some inner hinges cracked, bookplate of the Library of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow to pastedowns, original publisher’s green cloth gilt, a little rubbed, 4to (Qty: 44) Nissen BBI 2381; Nissen ZBI 4554; Spence 1198; Wood, p. 596. A largely complete and handsome set of the official accounts of the most important nineteenth-century circumnavigation of the globe. It was bound up in a complex way, the complete set originally comprising 50 bound volumes with many volumes bound in more than one part. The six volumes missing here are all from Zoology section which was originally published as 32 volumes bound in 40. This set lacks the Zoology volumes 5, 6, 12, 14, 16 & 18 (Text, Part II), each bound as one volume.The missing Zoology reports therefore are Parts 14-17 (Ophiuroitea; Actiniaria; Anatomy of the Thylacine, Cucus and Phasgogale; Tunicata), 34 (Annelida Polychaeta), 38 (Tunicata. Second part), 39 (Holothurioidea. Second part), 40 (Radiolaria, concluding part) and 44-47 (Nemertea; Cumacea; Phyllocarida; Pteropoda. First part - Gymnosomata). HMS Challenger embarked from Portsmouth on 21 December 1872 under the direction of the Scottish professor Charles Wyville Thomson and his Canadian-born assistant and naturalist John Murray This was the first time that physicists, chemists and biologists collaborated with expert navigators to map the sea. During the four-year voyage they circumnavigated the globe, travelling 69,0000 nautical miles across the Atlantic, Pacific and Antarctic oceans. They sounded the ocean bottom to a depth of 26,850 feet, discovered 715 new genera and 4,717 new species of ocean life forms, including many deep-sea specimens. Among their discoveries were many of the fish and marine creatures thought at that time to be of legend. Numerous specimens from the voyage are on view in one of the largest collections in the Natural History Museum. The fifty-volume, 29,500-page, report took twenty-three years to compile and publish.
Thomson (Charles Wyville & Murray, John). Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76, under the command of Captain George S. Nares and Captain Frank Tourle Thomson, 44 bound volumes (of 50), 1st edition, London, Edinburgh, etc.: HMSO for Longman & Co. [and others], 1880-95, approximately 3,000 plates, charts and maps, mostly lithographed, many tinted and many hand-coloured, some double-page and folding, largely unopened, some inner hinges cracked, bookplate of the Library of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow to pastedowns, original publisher’s green cloth gilt, a little rubbed, 4to (Qty: 44) Nissen BBI 2381; Nissen ZBI 4554; Spence 1198; Wood, p. 596. A largely complete and handsome set of the official accounts of the most important nineteenth-century circumnavigation of the globe. It was bound up in a complex way, the complete set originally comprising 50 bound volumes with many volumes bound in more than one part. The six volumes missing here are all from Zoology section which was originally published as 32 volumes bound in 40. This set lacks the Zoology volumes 5, 6, 12, 14, 16 & 18 (Text, Part II), each bound as one volume.The missing Zoology reports therefore are Parts 14-17 (Ophiuroitea; Actiniaria; Anatomy of the Thylacine, Cucus and Phasgogale; Tunicata), 34 (Annelida Polychaeta), 38 (Tunicata. Second part), 39 (Holothurioidea. Second part), 40 (Radiolaria, concluding part) and 44-47 (Nemertea; Cumacea; Phyllocarida; Pteropoda. First part - Gymnosomata). HMS Challenger embarked from Portsmouth on 21 December 1872 under the direction of the Scottish professor Charles Wyville Thomson and his Canadian-born assistant and naturalist John Murray This was the first time that physicists, chemists and biologists collaborated with expert navigators to map the sea. During the four-year voyage they circumnavigated the globe, travelling 69,0000 nautical miles across the Atlantic, Pacific and Antarctic oceans. They sounded the ocean bottom to a depth of 26,850 feet, discovered 715 new genera and 4,717 new species of ocean life forms, including many deep-sea specimens. Among their discoveries were many of the fish and marine creatures thought at that time to be of legend. Numerous specimens from the voyage are on view in one of the largest collections in the Natural History Museum. The fifty-volume, 29,500-page, report took twenty-three years to compile and publish.
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