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MORE than twenty years have elapsed since the late G. S. West published his “British Freshwater Algæ.” The edition was soon exhausted, and the lack of a similar volume has since been acutely realised. Prof. Fritsch has, therefore, done botanists in general a very real service in undertaking a revision of the earlier work. He has successfully tried to retain the character of the original volume, but the vast increase in every branch of our knowledge of the algæ has necessitated the addition of an enormous mass of material, and the result is an entirely new work, which has gained also an added personality.
A Treatise, on the British Freshwater Algœ, in which are included all the Pigmented Protophyta hitherto found in British Freshwaters.
By the late Prof. G. S. West. New and revised edition, in great part rewritten by Prof. F. E. Fritsch. Pp. xviii + 534. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1927.) 21s. net.
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P., W. A Treatise, on the British Freshwater Algœ, in which are included all the Pigmented Protophyta hitherto found in British Freshwaters . Nature 121, 614 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121614a0
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