HJORT, JOHAN.

"Michael Sars"s Atlanterhavsekspedition 1910.

[No place, nor printer], 1911 8vo. Uncut, unopened in later blank wrappers with black cloth back strip. Extract from "Naturen", 1911. Stamp and title in contemporary hand to front wrapper. Wrappers with nicks and a few tears. Internnaly fine and clean. (65)-113 pp + map.

First appearance of Hjort's paper on The Michael Sars Expedition in 1910, which occupies a central place in Norwegian and international history of marine science.

SS "Michael Sars" was the research vessel of the Board of Fisheries in Bergen and had since 1900 been carrying out investigations in the Norwegian Sea. The expedition in 1910 was carried out following an initiative from the Director of the Board of Fisheries, Johan Hjort, and was financed by Sir John Murray. Murray was the leader of the British "Challenger Office", which administered the material from the world-encompassing Challenger Expedition.

"One of the more general observations from the Michael Sars Expedition was that the abyssal plains seemed to have very little animal life. But when approaching the large mountain formations in the Mid-Atlantic, a good deal of life seemed to exist." (University of Bergen, One hundred years since the Michael Sars Expedition).

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