A popular history of British seaweeds : comprising their structure, fructification, specific characters, arrangement, and general distribution, with notices of some of the fresh-water algae / by D. Landsborough.

  • Landsborough, D. (David), 1779-1854.
Date:
1857
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Credit: A popular history of British seaweeds : comprising their structure, fructification, specific characters, arrangement, and general distribution, with notices of some of the fresh-water algae / by D. Landsborough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    specimens, and with her zeal and intelligence I doubt not that she will make many interesting discoveries on that classic shore. I am under obligations, also, to Mrs. Balfour, of Edinburgh, who, when residing in the Isle of Arran last summer, with her husband, Professor of Botany in the University of Edinburgh, engaged with such zeal in Algological pursuits, that she has already added to the marine flora of Scotland, and has thus helped to save the credit of our Scottish naturalists, who, it is alleged, allow English naturalists to surpass, even when making only occasional visits to our truly-interesting land. Nor must I forget to return my best thanks to Miss Turner and to Miss White, for some of the rare and beautiful Algse in which Jersey abounds. To many other friends I lie under obligations, which, I trust, I have acknowledged in the body of this little work.