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Biologic Sampling Apparatus
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Figure 37. Falconetti and Vaissiere turning net devised by Raymond Vaissiereand Claude Falconetti of the University of Nice in 1972. Top: the equipment.Bottom: in operating position. This net was designed to capture plankton andthe larvae of benth
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Figure 38. Fischer bacterial sampling device invented by Doctor BernhardFischer of the University of Kiel in 1894. He described this instrument in thereports of the Plankton-Expedition. It functioned with the aid of a helicalscrew for closing.
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Figure 39. Portier and Richard microbe sampling bottle invented by Doctor PaulPortier of the Laboratory of Physiology of the Faculty of Sciences, Paris, andDoctor Jules Richard, director of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco in 1902.It was a great i
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Figure 40. Liebert bacterial sampling apparatus invented by Francois Liebert in 1908 at the Rijksinstituut voor het onderzoek der zee and first used off thevessel WODAN in the North Sea. It sampled at depths from the surface tobetween 20 and 40 met
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Figure 41. Apstein instrument and graph for determining the depth of horizontally towed nets. First noted by Carl Apstein in 1909, this instrument was usedfor many years to determine the depth of net at various towing speeds and amount of tension o
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Figure 42. Top: Richard apparatus for examining live plankton. Bottom: a sample holding tank for studying plankton. Devised by Dr. Jules Richard in 1905 andused aboard the PRINCESSE-ALICE II. It was meant to allow study under shipconditions includ
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Figure 43. A piston pipette used in determining the amount of plankton in agiven volume of water. Used by Victor Hensen in 1887.
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Figure 44. Apstein apparatus used for measuring small amounts of plankton.Carl Apstein conceived this apparatus in 1909 for measuring the total amount ofplankton by the displacement of liquid.sample.
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Figure 44 (cont.) A circular sieve for straining plankton from the water usedwith the Apstein plankton measuring device.
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Figure 45. Jacobsen and Paulsen apparatus for the measurement of plankton ina water sample. Devised by Jacob Peter Jacobsen of the Danish HydrographicLaboratory and Doctor Ove Paulsen, of the Botanical Museum of theUniversity of Copenhagen, in 1910
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Figure 46. Hirondelle sled trawl devised by Prince Albert I of Monaco for useon l'HIRONDELLE in 1886. This type of trawl was very successful and used overthe course of 30 years in the various scientific expeditions of Prince Albert Iof Monaco and c
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Figure 47. A large mesh net designed by Prince Albert I of Monaco for use intowing at high speed. This net was constructed in 1896 and used on boardthe PRINCESSE-ALICE but was not very effective and its use was discontinued. It was tested on the P
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Figure 48. A sea bottom dredge designed by Jacques Picard in 1961 at theMarseille Marine Station and first used in the Bay of Marseille. This wasmeant to sample the fauna living in the sediments covering the seafloor. Thisinstrument is similar to a
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Figure 49. An Ekman bottom sampler for use in zoological sampling operations. This instrument was capable of acquiring a sample from a surface area covering500 sq cm. This device was designed by Dr. Sven Ekman of Jonkoping, Sweden in1910. This sam
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Figure 50. Petersen scoop bottom sampling device used by the Danish scientistC. G. Johan Petersen for studies of the bottom sediments of the Baltic Seafrom 1910 to 1912. Top: the original sampler. Bottom: sampling device in theOceanographic Museum
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Figure 51. A Birge-Ekman bottom sampling device. This sampler was described byby the American limnologist Edward Birge in 1921 and used in lacustrine studies. Top: open. Bottom: closed. This instrument was very similar to the Ekmanbottom sampler
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Figure 52. Knudsen bottom sampler designed by Martin Knudsen, a professorat the University of Copenhagen. This machine was meant to improve the sampling ability of the Petersen sampling device in more compact sediment layers. Itwas tested in the O
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Illustration 2. Recovery of the triangular fish trap. Drawn byLouis Tinayre and engraved by Duplessis; takenfrom The Career of a Navigator, the work of Prince Albert I of Monaco,third edition published in 1914.
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Figure 53. Triangular fish trap used by Prince Albert I of Monacoon his first oceanographic expedition on l'HIRONDELLE in 1886.
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Figure 55. Electric lamp invented by the Austrian Klaus Grein in 1912. Thislamp was used on the EIDER in 1912 to attract fish at depthsfrom 0 to 800 meters.
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