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Primary sources:
- Campbell, Lord George, Log Letters from the Challenger, (London, 1877).
- Moseley, H. N., Notes by a Naturalist on HMS Challenger, (London, 1892).
- Rehbock, Philip F., At Sea With the Scientifics, The Challenger Letters of Joseph Matkin, (Hawaii, 1992).
- Spry, W. J. J., The Cruise of HMS Challenger, (Detroit, 1878).
- Various, Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of HMS Challenger, Murray, John and Sir C. Wyville Thomson (eds), 50 vols. (London, 1885-1895). Freely available online
- Wyville Thompson, Sir C., The Atlantic, A Preliminary Account of the General Results of the Exploring Voyage of HMS Challenger. (New York, 1878).
Secondary sources:
- Corfield, Richard, The Silent Landscape: In the Wake of HMS Challenger 1872-1876, (London, 2004).
- Linklater, Eric, The Voyage of the Challenger, (New York, 1972).
Websites:
- Archive of Challenger related material including reports and narratives
- NOAA article comparing the Challenger expedition to modern (2003) expeditions. Also contains links to other media and education resources related to Challenger
- Brief history of HMS Challenger on the ‘About Us’ page of the Challenger Society for Marine Science
- RAMM HMS Challenger project blog
- Encyclopaedia Britannica Online entry for HMS Challenger, also links to articles about Wyville Thomson and Murray etc
Audio
- BBC Radio 4 program about HMS Challenger and the space shuttles
- National Maritime Museum. Karran Danks describes the strange new creatures of the deep, brought back by the HMS Challenger expedition of 1872–76.