Show SCENES AT THE SEAS BOTTOM A tutor at the paris university succeeds in taking submarine photographs INI louis Boti bonton tona a tutor at the paris university who has been for some time distinguished by his submarine investigations and zoological treatises on the red sea has now says the paris figaro C 1 succeeded in taking photographs of si sights 0 ats which he encountered encounter eI in the depths of tile the sea descending by means of a divers dress this gentleman manages to carry with him a small camera specially constructed for tile the purpose after trying for some time to operate in the natural light to bo be had at the bottom of oatho the sea lie he found that it was too weak to produce photographs so ho he next attempted t ith ath magnesium to obtain a flash that should enable him to talce take by the instantaneous process lie lic contrived a biall spirit lamp resting on a bottle of oxygen and covered by a glass shade and into this lamp lie he throw threw some magnesia by means of an india rubber ball which was pressed for tile the purpose at each flash thus olta obtained ined a photograph was vas produced these experiments have been made in a quiet bay near the coast in the laboratory at aller but the success which has attended them leads to the hope that soon we may venture f urther further ahead already dreams of automatic apparatus are not wanting whish could be sunk and return pictures of the deep sea such as no mortal eye has ever beli beheld eld M bouton relates that while lie was busy with liis his experiments large numbers of fish and other creatures that inhabit t tile the depths of the sea gathered round the spot with evident curiosity about the nature of the proceeding but they showed no fear when lie tried to touch or catch them they merely moved aside to evade his grasp but were not disturbed nor lid did they move away to any great distance from the spot in which they were interested |