scholarly journals The Dredgings of the Marine Biological Association (1895–1906), as a Contribution to the Knowledge of the Geology of the English Channel

1908 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Hansford Worth
Keyword(s):  
English Channel ◽  
Geological Society ◽  
Coast Line ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Marine Biological Association ◽  
Sea Bottom ◽  
Sea Bed ◽  
Coastal Deposits ◽  
Chief Interest

Investigation of the geologic problems connected with the English Channel is no new matter. Setting aside all speculations deriving from the study of its coast-line, the first serious examination of the bed of the Channel was made by R. A. C. Austen, and his results published in the Proceedings of the Geological Society, 13 June, 1849. Although, as he states, he had examined the sea-bed with dredge and sounding-lead he has little to say as to its lithology. But none the less his work is a notable contribution to our knowledge, and his conclusions bear well the test of subsequent discoveries. Following Austen, in 1871, Delesse published his Lithologie des Mers de France, in which considerable attention is given to the Channel; and the lithology of its coastal deposits, and to some extent of the sea-bed, is considered in detail. But, valuable as this work is, its chief interest lies in the information given as to the nature of the sea-bottom, the grade and extent of the varying deposits. Austen and Delesse alike, and in agreement, point out the large areas of the Channel bed which are occupied by stones, boulders, and pebbles of some size, and argue on much the same lines as to the conditions which have formerly existed there.

III.—On some Chalk-pebbles from the Floor of the English Channel

1913 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. Jukes-Browne
Keyword(s):  
Igneous Rocks ◽  
English Channel ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Marine Biological Association

In 1908 Mr. R. H. Worth described a number of stones which had been dredged by Mr. T. R. Crawshay, of the Marine Biological Association, from the floor of the English Channel to the east and south-east of the Lizard. These stones included a great variety of rocks such as granites, felsites, diorites, and other igneous rocks, gneisses, schists, slates, and quartzites, Devonian grits, Permian conglomerate, Triassic marl, sandstones of different kinds, Liassic limestones, hard chalks, and flints.

scholarly journals Rays and Skates. No. 2.—Description of Embryos

1927 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 661-683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert S. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Sea Water ◽  
English Channel ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
Egg Capsules ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Marine Biological Association ◽  
Series Of Experiments

In the years 1921 and 1922 a series of experiments on the rearing and hatching of the species of Rays and Skates occurring on the English side of the western end of the English Channel was carried out at the Laboratory of the Marine Biological Association, Plymouth. The egg-capsules were collected from fish landed at the Barbican at Plymouth and from fish captured by the Research steamers, Oithona and Salpa. The egg-capsules were kept in the circulation of sea-water in the tanks at the Laboratory, and for six species the period of incubation under these artificial conditions was determined.

scholarly journals Notes on the Littoral Polychaeta of Torquay (Part III)

1910 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Major E. V. Elwes
Keyword(s):  
English Channel ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Marine Biological Association

A Synopsis of the Aphroditidre of the English Channel by Mr. T. V. Hodgson is given in the Journal Marine Biological Association, Vol. VI, No. 2, 1900.APhrodita aculeata, Lin. McIntosh, Mon. Brit. Ann., Vol. II, p. 247.

scholarly journals Report on the Surface Drift of the English Channel and neighbouring Seas during 1897.

1898 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter Garstang
Keyword(s):  
Surface Currents ◽  
English Channel ◽  
Floating Bodies ◽  
The West ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Marine Biological Association ◽  
Different Seasons ◽  
Better Than ◽  
Surface Drift

I. Introduction.Some eighteen months ago the Director of the Plymouth Laboratory of the Marine Biological Association decided to carry out a series of investigations concerning the surface currents of the English Channel at different seasons of the year, and for a series of years, by means of properly devised floating bodies which would attract attention when standed on the shore, and the recovery of which could without difficulty be recorded. At the commencement of the investigation Mr. Allen communicated his scheme to the editors of the west-country Press, and these gentlemen kindly gave publicity to the plan, the success of which depended very largely upon the co-operation of residents and visitors frequenting the sea-shore. Mr. Allen's letter expresses so clearly the object and method of the investigation, that I cannot do better than reproduce it here:—

scholarly journals Larval and Post-larval Lima from Plymouth

1937 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 705-710 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie V. Lebour
Keyword(s):  
Marine Fauna ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
The North ◽  
Marine Biological Association ◽  
North Side

Two species of Lima are known from Plymouth: Lima hians (Gmelin), the commonest species, inhabiting small patches of stones with muddy gravel at extreme low-tide mark on the north side of the Breakwater, where many individuals may be found together, and Lima loscombi Sowerby, found on the coarse grounds west of the Eddystone, Rame-Eddystone Grounds, Mewstone Grounds, Stoke Point Grounds and southwest of the Eddystone (see Marine Biological Association, Plymouth Marine Fauna, 1931). The latter is a much smaller species than the former, not so highly coloured, and much rarer. Although it is often difficult to obtain Lima hians, as it is only accessible at very low tides, it occurs in numbers in the locality cited.

Contents

1903 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 435-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter Garstang
Keyword(s):  
Biological Association ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Marine Biological Association

The investigation of the trawling-grounds in Start Bay, Torbay, and Teignmouth Bay, which had been previously investigated in 1895–8 by Messrs. Stead and Holt, was resumed by the Marine Biological Association in 1901, under authority from the Devon Sea Fisheries Committee.

The First Records of the Blue RunnerCaranx Crysos(Pisces: Carangidae) in British Waters

1996 ◽  
Vol 76 (2) ◽  
pp. 543-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silja E. Swaby ◽  
Geoffrey W. Potts ◽  
John Lees
Keyword(s):  
Marine Fishes ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Marine Biological Association ◽  
Provisional Identification

In September 1992 a blue runner (Caranx crysos) (37 cm) was caught off Portland Harbour, Dorset, by an angler. Initially the specimen was not recognized as a rarity and it was damaged while being prepared as bait for a lobster pot. Fortunately it was retrieved and sent to the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food (MAFF) laboratory at Lowestoft where it was identified. In August 1993, a second blue runner (29 cm), (see Figure 1) was hand-lined in St Ives Bay, Cornwall by Mr Astrinsky, of Penzance. It was also taken to a MAFF office, at Newlyn, for identification where one of the authors made a provisional identification before sending it to the British Marine Fishes Database at the Marine Biological Association for final verification. These two fishes are the first records of the blue runner C.crysosfrom British waters, and represent a northerly extension to its range.

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