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Drawing of Timoides agassizii by Henry Bigelow.

Drawing of Timoides agassizii by Henry Bigelow.
Drawing of Timoides agassizii by Henry Bigelow.
Drawing of Timoides agassizii by Henry Bigelow.
Drawing of Timoides agassizii by Henry Bigelow.
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Bigelow, Henry B.
Drawing of Timoides agassizii by Henry Bigelow.
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01/01/1901
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This drawing is Plate 3 from "Medusae from the Maldive Islands" which was published as a "Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology," XXIX, No. 9, April 1904.
Image Of the Day caption:
Pioneering marine biologist Henry Bryant Bigelow served as the founding director of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution from 1930 to 1939. Almost three decades earlier, when Bigelow was an undergraduate at Harvard University, he went on his first oceanographic expedition, traveling to the Maldive Islands in the Indian Ocean with the director of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, Alexander Agassiz. That voyage sparked Bigelow's passion for oceanography. On the cruise, Bigelow was responsible for collecting and documenting gelatinous animals such as this jellyfish, whose drawing he included in his 1904 article Medusae from the Maldive Islands.
Caption from Down to the Sea for Science, pg. 6:
Drawing from Henry Bigelow's paper "Medusae from the Maldive Islands." Bigelow was in charge of collecting and curating gelatinous animals during Alexander Agassiz's 1901 voyage to the Maldives, an expedition conducted along the lines of the grand surveying cruises common in the nineteenth century.
Illustration by Henry B. Bigelow
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