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A bibliography ot African freshwater Algae 
by 
A. J. BROOK 
(Brown Trout Research Laboratory. Pillochry, Scotland, 
formely at Vniversity Collcoe, Khartoum). 
H. KUFFERATH 
(20, Rue Joseph II, Brussels) 
R. ROSS 
and 
Patricia A. SIMS 
(Britinh Muséum iSttlural History), London). 
INTRODUCTION 
Within the past dccade increasing attention bas been devoted to 
Ibe study of the fresb waters nf Africa, as a resuit especially of the 
establishment ot new fisheries research laboratories in many terri- 
tories. the incrcased interest taken in flsh-tanning projects, and the 
toundation of new Universities or University Colleges. The situa¬ 
tion of sonie ot these latter institutions, as for example the Univer¬ 
sity College of Khartoum and Makerere College, Kampala, near the 
continence of the Bliie and White Niles, and the East Atrican Lakes 
respectively, afîord excellent opportunities for limnological re¬ 
search. The Gouvernement Général du Congo Belge is also pro- 
inoting hydrolügical work on a large scale, both from the purely 
scientitic point of view and on account of its applications to the 
exploitation ot fisheries. As well as the work being donc under the 
ausiiices of the Institut pour la Recherche Scientifique en Afrique 
Centrale (I.R.S.A.C.), a number of important hydrological missions 
bave been organised by the Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de 
Belgique, especially those to Lake Tanganyika (11)46-7) and to 
Lakes Kivu, Edward, and Albert (1953-4). 
Knowledge ot the relevant literature provides the basis for inost 
research, and in the spécial conditions which exist in many part ot 
Africa, where library tacilities are still severely limited, workers 
new to a parlicular field may be greatly handicapped. This applies 
especially in biological studies, where systematics inevitably play 
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