4 THE MARINE ALGAE OF PERU 
in the past and the old deposits of which are now approaching 
exhaustion.* 
HIsTORIC AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC 
So far as the present writer has been able to determine from 
the accessible literature, the first collectors to bring marine algae 
from the coasts of Peru were Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé 
Bonpland, who visited Huanchaco,f Callao, etc., in the latter part 
of the year 1802. As early as 1808, they had described and figured 
(Pl. Aequin. 2: 7. pl. 68; 9. pl. бо) as two new species of the genus 
Fucus two Peruvian plants that are now identified with Macro- 
cystis pyrifera. Nine species of Peruvian algae, reducible to eight, 
collected by Humboldt and Bonpland, were afterwards listed in 
their "Nova Genera et Species Plantarum" (7: 418. 1825). 
Their specimens included the original materials on which the elder 
Agardh had founded the species now known as Glossophora 
Кип, Gymnogongrus furcellatus, and Centroceras clavulatum. 
The next botanists to collect algae on the shores of Peru 
appear to have been J. S. C. Dumont d'Urville, second in com- 
mand, and R. P. Lesson, naturalist, of the French corvette La 
Coquille in its voyage around the world, who visited Peru in Feb- 
ruary and March, 1823.1 Тһе algae of this expedition were 
described and in part illustrated by Bory de St.-Vincent, and his 
classic work$ is of fundamental importance in studying the marine 
plants of the west coast of South America. In this volume Bory 
‚ В. E. The fisheries and the guano industry of Peru. Bull. Bur. 
ichs 54 335-365. pl. 12-17. 1908. 
+ п у Humboldt and later by Agardh іп ге- 
{erring > algae садаа ныс at ы пасе. 
f The d'Urville specimens of algae from Chile and Peru in the herbarium of 
ылы ера at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle of Paris, are 
825” in Bory's hand, as if that were the date of collection, but that is 
: apparently pis date of his receiving the specimens from d'Urville. 
$ Voyage autour du monde, exécuté par ordre du Roi, sur la corvette de Sa 
Majesté, La Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825. Botanique, 
Cryptogamie. 4to. 1-96. 1827; 97-200. 1828; 20 
Sherborn & Wood 
Bory de 
inscribed “ 
tes a 
n the folio atlas, “1826,” 
plates 1-24 relate to the algae. Тһе text and plates relating to the algae, the plates 
in duplicate, colored and uncolored, were published separately, in folio, in 1829, 
under the title '' Histoire des ен ou plantes agames des eaux, recoltées par 
MM 
. d'Urville et Lesson, d leur voyage autour du monde, sur la corvette de Sa 
Majesté, La Coquille," etc. 
