Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1894 — Population of the Ocean. [ARTICLE]

Population of the Ocean.

A striking view of the vastness and variety of the population of the sea has recently been furnished by the results of explorations made by a committee of the Zoological Department of the British Association in that part of the Irish sea surrounded by the Isle of Man. . Out of 1,000 species of marine animals collected, 224 had never before been found in that region, 38 were previously unknown as inhabitants of' British waters, and 17 were entirely unknown to science: indeed they were animals whose existence had never been suspected. If such discoveries reward a few weeks of searching in so minute a speck of the sea, how many volumes would? be required to contain a list of the-still undiscovered inhabitants of the great', ocean?