...Ehrenberg, to abound in the open ocean : but on what, in the clear blue water, do these Infusoria subsist ? While sailing a little south of the Plata on one very...utterly obscure as over the vault of the heavens. As we proceed further southward the sea is seldom phosphorescent; and off Cape Horn I do not recollect...

...which a peculiar electrical condition of the atmosphere intensely develops. Mr. Darwin states, that while " sailing a little south of the Plata, on one...utterly obscure as over the vault of the heavens. As we proceed further southward, the sea is seldom phosphorescent ; and off Cape Horn, I do not recollect...

...of meteors. " While sailing a little south of the Plata on one very dark night," says Mr. Darwin, " the sea presented a wonderful and most beautiful spectacle....utterly obscure as over the vault of the heavens." Even in our own seas very beautiful displays of phosphorescence may be witnessed. On fine summer nights,...

...two billows of liquid phosphorus, »nd in her wake she was followed by a milky train. As far as tho eye reached, the crest of every wave was bright; and...utterly obscure as over the vault of the heavens." Even in our own seas very beautiful displays of phosphorescence may be witnessed. On fine summer nights,...

...phosphorus, and in her wake she was followed by a milky train. As far as the eye reached, the crest of everj' wave was bright ; and the sky above the horizon, from...utterly obscure as over the vault of the heavens." Even in our own seas very beautiful displays of phosphorescence may be witnessed. On fine summer nights,...

...wellknown naturalists : — " While sailing," says Darwin, in his interesting ' Journal of Researches,' " a little south of the Plata, on one very dark night,...utterly obscure as over the vault of the Heavens. . . On two occasions I observed the sea luminous at considerable depths below the surface. Near the...

...presence of animalculae, is thus described by Darwin : " While sailing a little south of the River La Plata. on one very dark night, the sea presented a...utterly obscure as over the vault of the heavens. Near the mouth of the Plata some circular and oval patches, from two to four yards, shone with a steady...

...very dark night, the sea presented a wonderful and most beautiful spectacle. There was a fresh breezey and every part of the surface, which during the day...utterly obscure as over the vault of the heavens. Near the mouth of the Plata some circular and oval patches, from two to four yards, shone with a steady...

...which during the day is seen as foam, now glowed with a pale light. The vessel drove before her bow two billows of liquid phosphorus, and in her wake...every wave was bright, and the sky above the horizon was illuminated from the reflected glare of these lurid flames." IV. It is only quite recently that...

...of liquid phosphorus, and in her wake she was followed by a milky train. As far as the eye reacted, the crest of every wave was bright, and the sky above the horizon was illuminated from the reflected glare of these lurid flames." 5. The depth of the ocean necessarily...