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History of Oceanography
The Early Instruments Collections
Biologic Sampling Apparatus
Early Instruments
Catalog of Oceanographic Equipment Contained in the Collection of the Museum of Oceanography of Monaco. 3. Biological sampling apparatusby Christian Christian Carpine. Bulletin de l'Institute Oceanographique,Vol. 74, No. 1438. 1991.
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Plate I. A Richard vertical net after return to the surface in 1908.
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Figure 1. A Cori net, devised by the Austrian Carl Cori at the Trieste zoological station in 1899. This net was used for a variety of studies, primarily depending on the size of the mesh of the net. This net was firsttested in the Adriatic near Tr
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Figure 2. A large Cori bathypelagic net. Left: view of the net. Right: thebiologic sample recovery unit. This unit was designed and built about the sametime as the preceding net.
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Figure 3. Petersen's net for young fish devised by C. G. Johan Petersen in1902. Left: view of the net. Right: view of the connectors. This net wasdesigned to capture the young of commercial species for further study. It wastested about 1902 at t
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Figure 4. Biological sample recovery unit for use with Cepede net. Invented by Casimir Cepede at the Wimereux zoological station in 1907. The first test ofthis instrument was probably near Wimereux (in the vicinity of Dunkirk) at about the time of
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Figure 5. The large Bouree bathypelagic net invented by Henry Bouree and used on the PRINCESS ALICE II in 1910. This vertical sampling net was tested in1910 between the depths of 0 and 4900 meters off the coast of Spain. It wasmeant to capture pel
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Figure 6. De Guerne bucket biologic sample recovery unit devised by Baron Jules De Guerne about 1893. a collaborator with Prince Albert I of Monaco. Use ofthis instrument depended on which type of net was used and how long the tow.It is almost cert
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Figure 7. Isaacs-Kidd trawling net for intermediate depths. Devised by John D. Isaacs and Lewis W. Kidd from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1950.above shows the net at the point of immersion. This net was meant to capturevery large animals
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Figure 7 (continued.) Plan of the original model of the Isaacs-Kidd trawlingnet.
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Figure 8. Plan of the original model of the WP3 trawling net as recommendedby working group Number 3 of the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research in1966. This net was meant to capture large plankton. It was afterwards testedby several laborator
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Figure 9. Cone for use with Hensen conical net. Invented by VictorHensen of the University of Kiel in about 1883. He called this invention Korbnetz. In 1901 he described an improved version that contained a tin-plateenvelope. Between these dates
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Figure 10. Cylinder for use with Hensen cylindrical surface-towed net at aboutthe same time as the cone mentioned previously. This net, for qualitativecollecting
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Figure 11. Meter for use with Buchet plankton net, devised by Gaston Buchet in1892. Left: front view. Right: side view. This instrument was designed tocapture pelagic animals while being towed at a relatively high rate of speed.It was tested off
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Figure 12. Borgert net devised by Dr. Adolph Borgert of Hamburg in 1893. Having found the Hensen and Buchet nets too heavy, too complicated, and difficult tomanage, and too expensive, Dr. Borgert designed this net for collecting plankton at the surf
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Figure 13. Richard narrow-ended net. Left: simple model. Right: model withdeflector. Invented in 1903 by Doctor Jules Richard, this net combined extremelightness with ease of making as well as a great facility for use by a shipunderway. The prot
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Figure 14. Apstein plankton tube. Above: Top view. Below: bottom view.Invented by Carl Apstein who had been studying lake fauna. Apstein collaboratedwith Hensen to work in the Baltic and North Seas. Apstein perceived quicklythat methods of work
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Figure 15. Zacharias ethmophore plankton filter devised by Otto Zacharias in1907. Top: view of the assembled apparatus. Bottom: internal speed reductionvalve. This instrument was devised to collect plankton under adverse meteorological condition
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Figure 16. Monti net tube devised by Madame Rina Monti of the University ofSassari in Sardinia. Top: the assembled unit. Middle: the internal net.Bottom: series of diaphrams used in the unit. This net and tube system weremeant to improve shortcom
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Figure 17. Hyponeuston net for capturing life in the top 5 centimeters of thewater column. This net was devised by Yuvenalii P. Zaitsev of the biologicalstation at Odessa and meant to capture plankton from the very top of the watercolumn. The top
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