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    		BENEATH TROPIC SEAS
    A Record of Diving Among the Coral Reefs of Haiti.
    William Beebe.
    G.P.Putnam's Sons, New York, London. 1928. (Top image).
    Hardcover, dust jacket, 234 pages, mono plates, index.
    From the Preface:
    The Tenth Expedition of the Department of Tropical Research of the New York Zoological Society was made possible by generous contributions from members of the Society. Its work was carried on in the Bay of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where we studied the coral reefs and the fishes. The final results will materialize in a series of scientific papers, which, it is hoped, will add something to our knowledge of the life of the sea. These will hardly be read by the general public, hence I have chosen a few high-lights of the expedition and crystallized them into these thirteen chapters. As far as the actual experiences are concerned, any reader of this volume may duplicate them. The diving helmet, hose and pump, with which all the research was done, are as inexpensive as they are simple in operation. I have had so many inquiries as to the inception and cost and operation of a scientific expedition, that I have thought it worth while to add several appendices, giving, in brief form, the gist of this information. 
    Bottom image - Blue Ribbon Books, New York, 1928 - thus the USA edition.
    [ps-no dj on top, ps with dj below.]
    HALF MILE DOWN. 
    William Beebe.
    Published in May 1935 by John Lane The Bodley Head. (First reprint July 1935).
    The author was director of the Department of Tropical Research at the New York Zoological Society. 
    Hardcover, 344 pages, eight illustrations in colour and 123 mono photographs. 
    Covers the famous decents into the depths in several bathysphere's up to 1934. A most important work.
    [ps-no dj]
    THE ARCTURUS ADVENTURE. 
    An Account of the New York Zoological Society's First Oceanographic Expedition.
    William Beebe.
    Published by G.P.Putnam's Sons, New York and London, 1926. (Five printings within 1926).
    Hardcover, 432 pages, colour plates, mono photographs. 
    The chapter, 'With Helmet and Hose' is particularly interesting to the diver, giving an excellent description of the equipment used. On the helmet purchased by the author just before departure,  'the paraphernalia accompanying it were so simple that I doubted its efficiency...'. 
       

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