THE MARINE AND MARITIME ALGAE OF MERSEYSIDE AND ADJOINING COASTS

摘要

The Victorian period saw a remarkable, and mainly amateur, enthusiasm for seaweed collecting, which was roughly contemporary with the rather better documented fern craze. Victorian Liverpool was unusual amongst British cities, however, in that it hadtwo men with a professional interest in marine algae and who were active in compiling records of the local flora. RJ.H. Gibson, the first professor of Botany at Liverpool University, published in 1891 a check list of species present at several sites in the north Irish Sea, including the Mersey side region. The local records were, however, very largely the work of F.P. Marrat (1820-1904) who was based at Liverpool Museum.