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On the Manufacture of Drift Bottles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

E. W. Nelson
Affiliation:
Scientific Superintendent, Fishery Board for Scotland, formerly Senior Naturalist at the Plymouth Laboratory.

Extract

In the spring of 1920 the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries approached the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom with a view to the Association undertaking the manufacture of a large number of “Drift Bottles,” to be used in an extensive research into the resultant movements of the waters of the North Sea.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1922

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References

page 701 note * Bidder, G. P., “Conseil Internat. L'Expl. de la Mer.” Rapports et Proc. Verb. IV, July, 1905, Appendix F, p. 102, Copenhagen,Google Scholar 1905. Loc. cit., VI, November, 1906, Annexe C, p. xxxv, Copenhagen, 1906.

page 710 note * We are indebted to Messrs. “The Plymouth Breweries” for the loan of a corking machine.

page 713 note * Care should be taken not to strain the wire when twisting so as to make the tail liable to break off.