Editing Challenger expedition (section)

== Legacy ==
Findings from the ''Challenger'' expedition continued to be published until 1895, 19 years after the completion of its journey, by the Challenger Office, Edinburgh, established for that purpose. The report contained 50 volumes and was over 29,500 pages in length.<ref name=eis>{{cite book|last=Eiseley|first=Loren|title=The Immense Journey|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/immensejourney00eiserich|chapter-url-access=registration|year=1946|publisher=Vintage Books|location=United States|isbn=0394701577|page=[https://archive.org/details/immensejourney00eiserich/page/38 38-41]|edition=1959|author-link=Loren Eiseley|chapter=The Great Deeps}}</ref> Specimens brought back by ''Challenger'' were distributed to the world's foremost experts for examination, which greatly increased the expenses and time required to finalize the report.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Adler|first=Antony|title=Neptune's Laboratory: Fantasy, Fear, and Science at Sea|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=2019|isbn=9780674972018|location=Cambridge, MA|pages=35}}</ref> The report and specimens were displayed at the [[Natural History Museum, London|British Natural History Museum]] from January to July, 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Exploring Our Oceans: The Challenger Expedition and Its Legacy {{!}} Natural History Museum |url=https://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/exhibitions/the-challenger-expedition-and-its-legacy.html |access-date=2023-06-23 |website=www.nhm.ac.uk |language=en}}</ref> Some specimens, many of which were the first discovered of their kind, are still examined by scientists today.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/science-of-natural-history/expeditions-collecting/hms-challenger-expedition/challenger-findings/index.html|title=HMS Challenger: Findings|publisher=[[Natural History Museum, London]]|access-date=2013-12-03|df=dmy-all|archive-date=13 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130613234546/http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/science-of-natural-history/expeditions-collecting/hms-challenger-expedition/challenger-findings/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

A large number of scientists worked on categorizing the material brought back from the expedition including the paleontologist [[Gabriel Warton Lee]]. [[George Albert Boulenger]], herpetologist at the Natural History Museum, named a species of lizard, ''[[Saproscincus|Saproscincus challengeri]]'', after ''Challenger''.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Beolens|first1=Bo|last2=Watkins|first2=Michael|last3=Grayson|first3=Michael|year=2011|title=The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles|location=Baltimore|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|isbn=9781421401355|chapter=Challenger|page=51}}</ref>

Before the ''Challenger'' expedition, oceanography had been mainly speculative.<ref name=eis/> As the first true oceanographic cruise, the ''Challenger'' expedition laid the groundwork for an entire academic and research discipline.<ref name="NOAA"/> "''Challenger''" was applied to such varied phenomena as the [[Challenger Society for Marine Science]], the oceanographic and marine geological survey ship {{ship||Glomar Challenger||2}}, and the [[Space Shuttle Challenger|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'']].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/resources/orbiters/Challenger.html|title=Challenger (STA-099, OV-99): Background|publisher=[[Kennedy Space Center|John F. Kennedy Space Center]]|access-date=2008-12-21|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090203035705/http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/resources/orbiters/Challenger.html|archive-date=2009-02-03|df=dmy-all}}</ref>