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RefNoAP/73/15
LevelItem
TitleUnpublished paper, 'A study of the phyto-plankton of the Atlantic' by George Murray and Vernon Herbert Blackman
Date1898
DescriptionThe authors record their observations on a year’s work in collecting phyto-plankton along a track from the Channel to Panama carried out by Captains Milner and Rudge, and also during one voyage to Brazil by Captain Tindall. They also give the results of their own observations on living material at sea. The material was obained by the pumping method. One of the objects of their work was to determine, if possible, the nature of the Coccospheres and Rhabdospheres.

Annotations in pencil and ink throughout.

Subject: Zoology

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 63 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'A study of the phyto-plankton of the Atlantic'.
Extent25p
FormatTypescript
PhysicalDescriptionInk and graphite pencil on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1898.0034
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Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA1021Murray; George Robert Milne (1858 - 1911); botanist and algologist1858 - 1911
NA6611Blackman; Vernon Herbert (1872 - 1967)1872 - 1967
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