William Beebe, with the Oceanographic Expedition of the New York Zoological Society aboard the ship Arcturns (TIME, Feb. 16), reported by wireless that the expedition was in the Sargasso Sea, and that the first specimens of young ribbon-like eels had been captured.
The weedy patches of this sea are believed to be the breeding place of eels, which spread thence to the shores of neighboring continents.
The Arcturus has had rough voyaging all the way, from New York to Newport News, from Newport News to Bermuda (which was touched on Feb. 19) and since then at...
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