Some account of the marine botany of the Colony of Western Australia
Year: 1855
Type: book
Abstract: Lemann, of London, and is now incorporated with the Dublin University Her- barium.This series, though small, contains several not ascertained by Preiss, and the specimens are generally more copiously collected, and in better order.I have received a few others from my friend J. Backhouse, of York, who procured them at Fremantle, during his visit to the colony.Collections of Algae, I am informed, have been repeatedly made in this colony by amateurs, chiefly ladies ; but respecting their contents the botanical world is no wiser, as they have been dispersed hither and thither among friends at home.This is all the information I possess respecting previous algological re- searches in Western Australia.My own observations were made between January and August, 1854, at a few widely separated points on this extensive coast ; not, perhaps, at the best possible collecting stations, but at those which were most accessible.These were King George's Sound and Cape Riche, on the southern coast; and Fremantle, Garden Island, and Rottnest Island, all in the immediate vicinity of Swan River, on the western coast.I shall briefly describe the features of the coast of these places.
Author: William Henry Harvey
Language: English
Subfield: Oceanography
Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2496420817