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Letter from Ellen Toynbee on board the British East Indiaman GLORIANA in theIndian Ocean in 1857 to Matthew Fontaine Maury

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Letter from Ellen Toynbee on board the British East Indiaman GLORIANA in theIndian Ocean in 1857 to Matthew Fontaine Maury. This is one of the firstpublished instances of a woman engaging in any aspect of marine biology.In: Maury, M. F., 1858. ...Wind and Current Charts. Vol. I, Eighth Edition,New and Enlarged. PP. 219-220.

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NOAA Central Library Historical Collections

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1857

Collection

Voyage to Inner Space

Keywords

Historic Exploration

Zooplankton