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II. THE advances during recent years in the knowledge of the of forms of life inhabiting the floor of the ocean surpass those in any other department of oceanic investigation. Thousands of new organisms have been discovered in all seas and at all depths in the ocean, and either have been, or are now being, described by specialists in all quarters of the world. There does not seem to be any part of the ocean bed so deep, so dark, so still, or where the pressure is so great as to have effectually raised a barrier to the invasion of life in some of its many forms. Even in the greater depths all the great divisions of the animal kingdom are represented.
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The Great Ocean Basins . Nature 32, 611–613 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/032611c0
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