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Figure 39. Portier and Richard microbe sampling bottle invented by Doctor PaulPortier of the Laboratory of Physiology of the Faculty of Sciences, Paris, andDoctor Jules Richard, director of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco in 1902.It was a great improvement over preceding models and gave very pure samples. Itwas tested between 1000 and 3000 meters depth off the Azores in 1902 (Image credit: Oceanographic Museum of Monaco | Y. Berard)