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IN most maritime countries there are certain stretches of the coast-line that offer peculiarly favourable conditions for the study of marine life. Such a one is the Monterey Peninsula in California, which is noted not only for the wealth and diversity of its seaweeds, but as the domicile of the Hopkins Marine Station from which, since its establishment in 1892, many important contributions to our knowledge of the marine life of the Pacific have issued. Among these must be ranked the work which forms the subject of the present review. All botanists who have had or may have the good fortune to visit this privileged region will owe a debt of gratitude to the author for giving them the benefit of his prolonged experience of its seaweed population. Smith's valuable book, which deals with the green, brown and red Algæ of the Monterey Peninsula, is, however, far more than a local flora, since approximately three-quarters of the seaweeds recorded from the Pacific coast of North America occur on the shores of the Peninsula. Moreover, it constitutes the first recent taxonomic account of the American Pacific Rhodophyceæ, since the section dealing with this class in Setchell and Gardner's "Marine Algae of the Pacific"was never published.
Marine Algæ of the Monterey Peninsula, California
By Prof. Gilbert M. Smith. Pp. ix + 622 (98 plates). (Stanford University, Calif.: Stanford University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1944.) 36s. net.
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FRITSCH, F. Marine Algæ of the Monterey Peninsula, California. Nature 155, 220 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155220a0
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