Bathybius was a name given by Huxley to a supposed organism found in some preserved examples of deep-sea ooze obtained by Captain Dayman in 1857, while dredging in HMS Cyclops, in connection with the laying of the Atlantic cable. Huxley's description was published in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science in 1868. Eventually it was shown by the Challenger that the substance in question was nothing but a precipitate of gelatinous calcium sulphate thrown down by the addition of strong alcohol to deep-sea ooze. Research Bathybius
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