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THE elimination of the many sources of error encountered in some form or another when collecting plankton for quantitative work with silk nets is a problem that has been attacked many times. During the last fifty years, a number of workers, many of them with some measure of success, have from time to time used a pump and filter as a means of collecting a small, but quantitatively accurate sample, of plankton.
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GIBBONS, S., FRASER, J. The Modern Centrifugal Pump as a Plankton Collector. Nature 139, 417 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139417a0
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