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Marine science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2011

Ronald I. Currie
Ronald I. Currie
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Dunstaffnage Marine Research Laboratory, P.O. Box 3, Oban, Argyll PA34 4AD
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Margaret Deacon (1971) has given us a very comprehensive account of the development of marine science from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century and, since Edinburgh was a focal point in the nineteenth century, it would be superfluous and presumptuous of me to endeavour to repeat what she has done. Furthermore, so much has been written about the Challenger Expedition which was nurtured in Edinburgh that again it seems quite unnecessary to repeat in any detail the story of that major milestone in the development of the subject. The specialist has the 50 volumes of scientific reports of the expedition to refer to, while, of the numerous popular accounts Eric Linklater's book (1972) is agreeable reading.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Section B: Biological Sciences , Volume 84: Two Hundred Years of the Biological Sciences in Scotland , 1983 , pp. 231 - 250
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1983

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