William Beebe
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Charles William Beebe was an American naturalist, ornithologist, marine biologist, entomologist, explorer, and writer. He is remembered for the numerous expeditions he conducted for the New York Zoolo
April 1906 cover story of New York World's Sunday magazine written by William Beebe, advertising the Bronx Zoo's diversity of birds
Five species of Tragopan pheasants from William Beebe's book A Monograph of the Pheasants, published 1918–1922
Sargassum in the Sargasso Sea
Arcturus during Beebe's 1925 expedition.
Bathysphere
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The Bathysphere was a unique spherical deep-sea submersible which was unpowered and lowered into the ocean on a cable, and was used to conduct a series of dives off the coast of Bermuda from 1930 to 1
William Beebe
…He is remembered for the numerous expeditions he conducted for the New York Zoological Society, such as the Arcturus mission, his deep dives in the Bathysphere, and his prolific scientific writing for academic and popular audiences. Born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in East Orange, New Jersey, Beebe left…
The Bathysphere on display at the National Geographic museum in 2009
The instruments aboard the Bathysphere
Bathysphere rigged for diving
Else Bostelmann's illustration of the Bathysphere's descent, painted for the National Geographic article which Beebe wrote in return for the National Geographic Society sponsoring his dives