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REPORT on the MARINE ALG@#of the L.M.B.C. 
DISTRICT. 
By R. J. Harvey Gipson, M.A., F.B.S.E., F.L.S., 
LECTURER ON BOTANY IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LIVERPOOL. 
{Read 8th March, 1889.] 
In the First Report of the Liverpool Marine Biological 
Committee* a brief catalogue is given by Mr. A. Leicester 
of species of marine Algz collected during the various 
expeditions undertaken by the committee. As stated by 
Mr. Leicester, ‘‘no particular search was made for Alge, 
the primary object of the expeditions being to collect 
animals.’’ Mr. Leicester notes the occurrence of twelve 
species of Phzophycee, fifteen species of Rhodophycee, 
and one species of Chlorophycee. 
It has been thought desirable by the committee that the 
Second Report should include a more detailed and complete 
list of the marine Algz of the district mapped out as the 
field of the committee’s work. Although I have not as yet 
had many opportunities of investigating the Alge of that 
district with anything approaching thoroughness, I feel 
that the occasion of the publication of the Second Report 
should not be allowed to slip past without incorporating in 
that volume a synopsis of the work already done in this 
department of Botany, together with a record of the 
additions to the list of the marine Flora which have been 
made during the past year. From the little I have been 
able to accomplish in that line, I feel convinced that the 
marine Algze form a field for investigation scarcely the 
borders of which have as yet been explored. I think this 
* The First Report upon the Fauna of Liverpool Bay and the Neighbouring 
Seas. Liverpool, 1886, p. 312. 
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