The Sea and Its Living Wonders A Popular Account of the Marvels of the Deep and of the Progress of Martime Discovery from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

CHAPTER XX.

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THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF MARINE LIFE.

The Dependence of all created Beings upon Space and Time.--The Influences which regulate the Distribution of Marine Life.--The four Bathymetrical Zones of Marine Life on the British Coasts, according to the late Professor Edward Forbes of Edinburgh. --Abyssal Animals.--_Bathybius Haeckelii._--Deep-Sea Sponges and Shell-Fish.--Vivid Phosphorescence of Deep-Sea Animals.--Deep-Sea Shark Fishery--The "Challenger." 405