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RefNoAP/39/16/1
LevelItem
TitleUnpublished manuscript, 'On the sea saw-dust [Trichodesmium] of the Pacific' by John Denis Macdonald
Date1856
DescriptionMacdonald provides a description of sea sawdust, a genus of filamentous cyanobacteria observed in the South Pacific Ocean.

Annotations in pencil throughout. Includes one page of figures of the sea sawdust.

Subject: Algology

Received 13 January 1857. Read 26 February 1857. Communicated by Captain [Henry Mangles] Denham.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 8 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the sea saw-dust of the Pacific'.
Extent3p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk and graphite pencil on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1856.0102
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA6653Denham; Sir; Henry Mangles (1800 - 1887)1800 - 1887
NA3682Macdonald; Sir; John Denis (1826 - 1908)1826 - 1908
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