| This research was undertaken by the Arago Laboratory at Banyuls-sur-Mer, as designated through international agreements signed in Rome and Madrid under the auspices of the Scientific and Technical Office of Maritime Fisheries. Carried out in 1921, the study first consisted of a vertical series of oceanographic measurements (temperature, water samples, plankton samples) that were repeated in a number of stations along two transects: from Port-Vendres to Ajaccio and from Port-Vendres to Mahon, Philippeville [currently known as Skikda, Algeria] and Tunis. The results are briefly summarised in this March 1922 issue of the "Bulletin Océanographique de Monaco". The second half of the oceanographic cruise was devoted to the study of the seafloor and the fauna in... |
