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I WOULD like to endorse Prof. F. E. Fritsch's letter in Nature of July 29 on this subject. It is regrettable that a country such as ours with many suitable habitats for marine algæ should lag behind Continental countries in the study of this particular group of plants. Both the last and the present Wars revived an interest in the marine algæ, and the present War has certainly shown how ignorant we still are about many fundamental facts of the life-history of sea-weeds. Some of these problems are now being solved and the gaps in our knowledge closed, but it is important that the work should not cease when the War ends. The establishment of a centre for this work is long overdue. At the recent annual meeting of the Marine Biological Association, it was hoped that at least one if not more whole-time workers on marine algæ might be appointed at the end of the War. This may well be a start in the direction indicated by Prof. Fritsch.
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CHAPMAN, V. Marine Biological Research in Great Britain. Nature 154, 301 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154301a0
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