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Excerpt from Scientific and Biological Researches in the North Atlantic: Conducted by the Author on His Yachts 'the Walwin' and 'the Silver Belle'
'in the work which is recorded in the following pages, I owe a deep debt of gratitude to several scientific friends, notably Dr. H. N. Dickson, of Oxford and Reading, and to Mr. E.. W. L. Holt (and Mr. Byrne) and his associates of the Irish Fishery Board, and to Professor Pettersson, of-stockholm, for their assistance in working 'up some of the results of the observations made over a number of years on my yachts. I fully recognize the fact that there is much material brought home from these cruises, which it has been impossible yet to overlook, in the midst of many occupations. I am painfully aware of the fact, that if I wait any longer for the completion of the study of these biological collections, I may have to defer the publication of such results as have been arrived at until a time too remote to contemplate. This would be unjust to my friends who have assisted me, and I must therefore give these observations to the world in a less complete form than I had originally contemplated, and hope for the opportunity to extend them at a future time. Many of them have been contributed to the meetings of the Challenger Society, which, however, does not publish Trans actions. I can only trust that they may prove of interest to others who, like myself, have been fascinated by the study of things oceanographical. With all modesty I put this little volume out, gnot without the hope that it may stimulate others to assist science, as I have endeavoured to do, by observations at sea, seriously undertaken, and accurately recorded.
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