REPORT

of the

SCIENTIFIC RESULTS

of the
  
 VOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGER
DURING THE YEARS 1873-76

under the command of
 Captain GEORGE S. NARES, R.N. F.R.S.

and the late
Captain FRANK TOURLE THOMSON, R.N.

Prepared under the Superintendence of

the late
Sir. C. WYVILLE THOMSON, Knt., F.R.S., &c.
Regius Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh
Director of the Civilian Scientific Staff on board

and now of
JOHN MURRAY, LL.D., Ph. D. &c.
One of the naturalists of the expedition.


ZOOLOGY Part XXI

1883
 
 Report on the Specimens of the Genus Orbitolites collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the Years 1873-1876.


by

W. B. Carpenter, C.B., M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S.,
Corresp. Memb. Inst. France, &c.

(Received May 14, 1883.)


47 pp. Illustrated with 8 plates.

This Report is bound in the H.M.S. Challenger Reports, Volume 7, 1883.

Entry page is  entry.htm

This electronic edition prepared by Dr. David C. Bossard
from original documents in the library holdings of
Dartmouth College, Hanover New Hampshire.

June, 2004.

Copyright © 2004 by David C. Bossard.



Orbolites tennissima x15, portion of the disk
Plate I, Fig. 6.


Orbolites duplex x16
Plate III, Fig. 8.


Orbolites complanata, reconstruction of typical disk
Plate VI, Fig. 4.




A high resolution  (800 ppi) world map showing the H.M.S. Challenger Track and Sounding Stations
is available here in three sections.
From Zoology Volume LIII, 1887.

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CONTENTS


  INTRODUCTION  1   001  002  003  004  005  006  007  008  009  010

DESCRIPTION OF GENUS AND SPECIES  11   011  012  013  014  015  016  017  018  019  020  021  022  023  024  025  026  027  028  029  030  031  032  033  034  035  036  037  038  039  040  041  042

CONCLUDING SUMMARY, WITH A STUDY OF THE THEORY OF DESCENT  43   043  044  045  046  047




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03 III


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06 VI


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