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MATERIAL for research on the floating Sargassum vegetation of the western North Atlantic was collected in connexion with a series of hydrographic cruises to the central American seas on the research ship Atlantis,sponsored jointly by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and by Yale University (under the auspices of the Bingham Oceanographic Foundation), a special surface net being used which was designed to gather floating weeds from the sea surface on a quantitative basis, and the results of the researches have now been published.
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Biology and Systematics of the Sargassum Weed. Nature 145, 559–560 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145559a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/145559a0