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Quantitative Investigations in Marine Biology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2011

Ronald Currie
Ronald Currie
Affiliation:
Dunstaffnage Marine Research Laboratory, Oban, Argyll
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Synopsis

Early man's interest in marine organisms was no doubt essentially gastronomic. Ample testimony to his predilection for shellfish exists in prehistoric middens in many parts of the world. From the earliest days of history, however, we find evidence of a more philosophical interest. Aristotle (384–322 b.c.), for example, described more or less accurately about 150 species of fish and other marine organisms (Tizard et al. 1885) and his name is remembered in the ‘Aristotle's lantern', the common name for the masticatory apparatus of the sea urchin.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Section B: Biological Sciences , Volume 73: Challenger Expedition Centenary Proceedings 2 , 1972 , pp. 239 - 245
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1972

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