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THE three last publications on the results of the Antarctic expeditions of the Discovery, Scotia and Gauss show that these works are approaching completion. The new contribution to the scientific results of the Scotia includes all the botanical reports except that on the phytoplankton, which may prove the most important. Of the ten memoirs in this volume, two deal with localities, Ascension and Gough Islands (lat. 50° S.), which are outside the Antarctic area. Seven of the memoirs are republished from various journals, while that by Mr. and Mrs. Gipp on the marine algæ is a compilation of their three papers with a rediscussion of some of the results. It is a great convenience to have these valuable memoirs collected into one volume; but it is unfortunate that the species founded in them are described in this work as “new species.” Much trouble may be thus caused by the annual biological records again cataloguing these species, or by their being subsequently assigned to wrong dates.
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G., J. Antarctic Biology and the Rocks of Western Wilkes Land 1 . Nature 90, 572–573 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/090572d0
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