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Description: A Victorian volume of seaweed and algae specimens gathered by an unidentified collector from the southern coast of England. The twelve specimens are mounted on cards and then on pages bound into the volume. The specimens are carefully pressed and labeled with their Latin names and where they were found, including the Isle of Wight, Devon, and Cornwall. The volume is contemporary half calf over pebbled cloth with the title stamped in gilt on the front cover.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1860.
Call number: mssHM 84127
Provenance: Purchased from Ben Kinmont, Bookseller, February 2023.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

G. E. Dyke-Poore seaweed specimen album

Manuscripts

A Victorian album of seaweed and algae specimens collected and preserved by G. E. Dyke-Poore. The album contains twenty-three seaweed specimens mounted on cards and then mounted on pages bound in the album; there are also four additional specimens mounted onto loose pages laid into the back of the album. The specimens are carefully pressed onto each card and labeled with their Latin names; the specimens seem to have been gathered in Jersey, with one specimen from The Heads, Tasmania. The album is bound in contemporary pink and gilt illustrated paper covers (possibly homemade), with the remainder of green silk ties. Mounted onto the verso of the front cover is a little green card which says "Collected, Arranged, and Mounted by Miss G. E. Dyke-Poore, Jersey" and there is also a short poem inscribed by Miss Dyke-Poore at the beginning of the album.

mssHM 84128

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Alice Flood seaweed album

Manuscripts

A collection of sixty-eight seaweed, algae, and bryozoan samples, many of which have culinary uses; the majority of the samples are labeled with both common English names and Latin names. The majority of the samples were collected along the English coast, but two samples have a given location of "Point de Galles" in Sri Lanka. Each sample is attached to the paper with tiny stitches of thread; the leaves are loose and housed in a contemporary green cloth drop-sided box. The box also contains a poem on the recto of one folded leaf about the beauty of seaweed. The seaweed samples are extremely fragile and must be handled with care.

mssHM 84138

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Album of pressed seaweed and sea moss specimens

Manuscripts

A Victorian album of seaweed and sea moss specimens gathered by an unidentified female collector in England. The album consists of 80 pressed specimens of red, green, and brown seaweed and sea mosses, some of which are artfully arranged into crosses, a laurel wreath, an anchor, and the word "love." Tipped onto the first blank page is an eight-line manuscript poem adapted from "Flowers of the Sea." The album is bound in contemporary roan, with spine compartments tooled in gilt, the front cover lettered "Sea Mosses" in gilt and handmade textured endpapers printed with crescent moons in red and accented with gilt stars.

mssHM 84529

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Scrapbook volume

Manuscripts

Original scrapbook volume with empty pages, except for three pages of pressed botanical specimens. The verso of the flyleaf has the ms. ink inscription: "Louise Virenda Blandy, in remembrance of April 12. 76, with much love, from Adelheid."

mssHM 57251-57339

Algae and corallines, of the Bay and Harbor of New York : illustrated with natural types

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293 mounted specimens of algae, 4 to 8 per leaf, on 40 leaves. Each specimen is numbered to correspond with its printed description at the front. 2 pages of "Notices by the Press" at end.

23855

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Complete manuscript (13 chapters) of 2nd volume Flora and Fauna of Mauritius by Nicolas Pike

Manuscripts

Box also includes front matter for the volume, research notes, printed material, and watercolor drawings of birds, flora, corals, and algae.

mssPike

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