The book "The life of the sea. The flora and fauna of the sea, its life and relationships". K. Keller, St. Petersburg, 1905

The book "The life of the sea. The flora and fauna of the sea, its life and relationships". K. Keller, St. Petersburg, A.F. Devrien Edition, 1905

Translated from German, with the permission of the author, Schmidt P.Y. 2nd edition, with additions and the addition of a new separate part "Life of the Russian Seas". With 10 chromolithographed tables, 6 separate engravings and 334 drawings in the text.

The famous work of Professor Konrad Keller consists of four parts. The first part is devoted to the general phenomena of marine animal life and contains information about the glow of the sea, the color of marine animals, coastal fauna, fauna of the sea surface, coral reefs. The second part tells about the vertebrates of the sea, including: marine mammals, seabirds, marine reptiles and marine fish. The third and fourth parts describe invertebrates and marine vegetation.

Peter Schmidt, translator of the presented work, is an outstanding Russian zoologist and ichthyologist, head of the zoological department of the Kamchatka expedition of F.P. Ryabushinsky, who made a huge contribution to the study of the ichthyofauna of the North Pacific Ocean and the Far Eastern seas of Russia.