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THE magnificent expeditions of the Talisman and the Travailleur have called the attention of naturalists and physicists to the conditions of life at the bottom of the sea. A learned physiologist, Dr. Regnard, has conceived the happy idea of studying experimentally these Hitherto the operator simply placed the animals on which he experimented in the iron block of the Cailletet pump, and subjected them to the pressure corresponding to a given depth; he then released them, sometimes very slowly (after several days), sometimes rapidly and even instantly. He examined then, physiologically and microscopically, the lesions produced. But all the intermediate stages between the entrance of the animals and the time they were taken out escaped the observer. But now the apparatus in Fig. I allows him to follow each minute the effects. The following is Dr. Regnard's description of his apparatus to the Academy of Sciences:—
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The Life of Aquatic Animals at High Pressure 1 . Nature 32, 399–400 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/032399a0
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