A life buoy, is a life saving buoy designed to be thrown to a person in the water, to provide buoyancy,…
Chaetognatha is a phylum of predatory marine worms that are a major component of plankton worldwide.…
"Three principal parts, the card, the needle on its lower suface, and the case. The whole is enclosed…
Diagram illustrating change in facies of marine clastics, from sands and muds near the shore to calcareous…
A common fish known for its flat appearance and both eyes being on the upper, darker side of its body.
The United States Marine Hospital is a historic Greek Revival hospital building in Mobile, Alabama.…
Marginella is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Marginellidae, the…
"In the newt a tail is superadded to the extremities, the tail and the extremities both acting in swimming."—Pettigrew,…
Restored section from the Appalachians to the Cincinnati region, to show the overlaps of continental…
Sipunculus nudus. A species of unsegmented marine worm, commonly called the peanut worm. "B, Larval…
Sections to illustrate progressive overlap; a) in a continental series, away from the source of supply;…
This painting by Claude Gelle Le Lorrain is one of his favorites. It is practically identical to his…
"The seal, adapted principally for water. The extremities are larger than in the porpoise and manatee."—Pettigrew,…
"The marine trumpet or Triton's shell, Triton variegatus, is elegantly variegated with red…