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Unpublished paper, 'On the sea saw-dust [Trichodesmium] of the Pacific' by John Denis Macdonald

Reference number: AP/39/16

Date: 1856

Description

Macdonald 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'.

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AP/39/16
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1856
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Drawing
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John Denis Macdonald

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John Denis Macdonald, Unpublished paper, 'On the sea saw-dust [Trichodesmium] of the Pacific' by John Denis Macdonald, 1856, AP/39/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_39_16/unpublished-paper-on-the-sea-saw-dust-trichodesmium-of-the-pacific-by-john-denis-macdonald, accessed on 12 December 2024

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