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Description
Figure 16. Monti net tube devised by Madame Rina Monti of the University ofSassari in Sardinia. Top: the assembled unit. Middle: the internal net.Bottom: series of diaphrams used in the unit. This net and tube system weremeant to improve shortcomings found in various other surface plankton samplingsystems and was first tested off the coast of Sardinia in 1911.
Credit
Oceanographic Museum of Monaco
Photographer
D. Mille
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