Oceanography: The Past: Proceedings of the Third International Congress on the History of Oceanography, held September 22–26, 1980 at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA on the occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the founding of the Institution

Front Matter....Pages I-XX
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: A Commentary....Pages 1-9
The Oceanographic and How It Grew....Pages 10-24
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: An Expanding Influence....Pages 25-31
Changing Concepts of the Sea, 1550–1950: An Urban Perspective....Pages 32-41
The 1959 Oceanographic Congress: An Informal History....Pages 42-48
The R/V Atlantis and Her First Oceanographic Institution....Pages 49-56
Reviving American Oceanography: Frank Lillie, Wickliffe Rose, and the Founding of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution....Pages 57-66
Growth of an Oceanographic Institution....Pages 67-82
Alexander Agassiz (1835–1910) and the Financial Support of Oceanography in the United States....Pages 83-93
The Annisquam Sea-side Laboratory of Alpheus Hyatt, Predecessor of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, 1880–1886....Pages 94-100
Some Aspects of Anglo-American Co-operation in Marine Science, 1660–1914....Pages 101-113
Edward H. Smith and the 1928 Marion Expedition Revisited: A Compilation....Pages 114-126
The Role of T. Wayland Vaughan in American Oceanography....Pages 127-137
A Brief History of the Tortugas Marine Laboratory and the Department of Marine Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington....Pages 138-147
Some Aspects of the History of Oceanography as Seen through the Publications of the International Hydrographic Bureau 1919–1939....Pages 148-156
The Plan for an International Oceanographic Congress Proposed by H.S.H. the Prince Albert 1st of Monaco....Pages 157-167
Oceanographic Prescience: The Deliberations of the First U.S. Interagency Conference on Oceanography, July 1, 1924....Pages 168-178
Some Historical Backgrounds for the Establishment of the Stazione Zoologica at Naples....Pages 179-187
A Review of Wüst’s Classification of the Major Deep-sea Expeditions 1873–1960 and Its Extension to Recent Oceanographic Research Programs....Pages 188-194
The Role of Instruments in the Development of Physical Oceanography....Pages 195-203
Meso-scale Spatial Distribution of Plankton: Co-evolution of Concepts and Instrumentation....Pages 204-225
Some Origins and Perspectives in Deep-ocean Instrumentation Development....Pages 226-239
The Historical Development of Tidal Science, and the Liverpool Tidal Institute....Pages 240-251
Six’s Thermometer: A Century of Use in Oceanography....Pages 252-265
North Pacific Sea Surface Temperature Observations: A History....Pages 267-279
Some Aspects of the Historical Development on the Studies of the Kuroshio and the Oyashio....Pages 280-289
Seasonal Changes in the Suez Canal Following Its Opening in 1869: Newly Discovered Hydrographic Records of 1870–1872....Pages 290-305
The First Geological-Oceanological Studies of the Black Sea (N.F. Andrusov, A.D. Arkhangel’sky, N.M. Strakhov)....Pages 306-315
The First Deep Ocean Drilling....Pages 316-324
Geological and Oceanographical Studies in the Caspian Sea and Problems of Oil and Gas Deposits....Pages 325-335
The Development of Marine Chemistry until 1900....Pages 336-343
Physical Oceanography of the Chilean Sea: An Historical Study....Pages 344-352
From the Physiology of Marine Organisms to Oceanographic Physiology or Physiological Oceanography....Pages 353-359
Alexander Agassiz, Carl Chun and the Problem of the Intermediate Fauna....Pages 360-372
The British Association Dredging Committee: A Brief History....Pages 373-385
Development of Knowledge of the Correlation between Land and Sea in Historical Times....Pages 386-392
A Commemoration on the 50th Anniversary of the William Beebe-Otis Barton Bathysphere Dives....Pages 393-396
Marine Industrial Pollution....Pages 397-413
The History of Chlorinated Hydrocarbon Pollution in the Marine Environment....Pages 414-419
Artificial Radionuclides in the Oceans....Pages 420-437
The Royal Society and the Study of Coral Reefs....Pages 438-447
Early 19th Century Oceanography around Terra Australis....Pages 448-461
The Plankton-Expedition and the Copepod Studies of Friedrich and Maria Dahl....Pages 462-473
Studies on Estuarine-Marine Dependency....Pages 474-487
History of Polish Biological Oceanographic Research....Pages 488-495
On the Environment and Unity in Marine Research....Pages 496-508
Phytoplankton Ecology before 1900: Supplementary Notes to the “Depths of the Ocean”....Pages 509-521
The Victorian Aquarium in Ecological and Social Perspective....Pages 522-539
The Development of Biological Studies in the Ocean Environment....Pages 540-550
Physical Oceanography in India: An Historical Sketch....Pages 551-561
Switzerland’s Contributions to the Aquatic Sciences over the Centuries....Pages 562-571
Traditional Chinese Ichthyology and Its Encounter with Jesuit Science: An Historical Survey....Pages 572-581
On the History of Arab Navigation....Pages 582-595
Vila do Infante (Prince-Town), the First School of Oceanography in the Modern Era: An Essay....Pages 596-605
King Carlos of Portugal, a Pioneer in European Oceanography....Pages 606-613
Studies of the Acceptance of Plate Tectonics....Pages 614-621
How Secure is Plate Tectonics?....Pages 622-628
Early Observations and Investigations of El Niño: the Event of 1925....Pages 629-641
Oceanography Development in Peru....Pages 642-655
Oceanography and Geophysical Theory in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: The Dutch School....Pages 656-666
Belgium and the Early Development of Modern Oceanography, Including a Note on A.F. Renard....Pages 667-681
The Forsters’ Offenses against Convention during and after Capt. Cook’s Second Voyage around the World and the Governmental Reprisals....Pages 682-689
The Meteor Expedition, an Ocean Survey....Pages 690-702
The Benjamin Franklin and Timothy Folger Charts of the Gulf Stream....Pages 703-717
William De Brahm’s “Continuation of the Atlantic Pilot,” an Empirically Supported Eighteenth-century Model of North Atlantic Surface Circulation....Pages 718-733
Considerations on the Medical Use of Marine Invertebrates....Pages 734-749
The Siting and Development of Mediterranean Harbors in Antiquity....Pages 750-764
Sebastos, the Harbor Complex of Caesarea Maritima, Israel: The Preliminary Report of the 1978 Underwater Explorations....Pages 765-779
Gondwanaland in Ancient Indian Literature....Pages 780-789
Back Matter....Pages 790-812