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Figure 38

Description

Figure 38. Fischer bacterial sampling device invented by Doctor BernhardFischer of the University of Kiel in 1894. He described this instrument in thereports of the Plankton-Expedition. It functioned with the aid of a helicalscrew for closing.

Credit

Oceanographic Museum of Monaco

Photographer

Y. Berard

Collection

Voyage to Inner Space
History of Oceanography Collection
The Early Instruments - Collections of the Oceanographic Museum at Monaco
Biologic Sampling Apparatus

Keywords

Oceanography
Historical instruments