SOME NEW BRITISH ALGAE

New understanding of algae.

New Understanding of Algae Within one week, British botanist Brian A. Whitton received two phone calls about cyanobacteria in local reservoirs-one caller wanted to know how to eradicate a potentially toxic bloom, the other wanted advice on marketing a related species as a health food. The anecdote, shared by Whitton at the 4th International Conference on Toxic Cyanobacteria, held 27 September-1...

Some Notes on British Bats

reed warbler here and never an icterine, a bird whose notes are firmly fixed in my head. The Norfolk coast, in addition to furnishing breeding grounds for some large colonies of terns, is a good place to see migrants, many of which find temporary shelter in the low growth on the saltings and sandhills. Sometimes, especially in foggy weather, a hold-up of migrants occurs. This autumn, for instan...

Distribution of pyrenoids among some brown algae.

The distribution of pyrenoids among some orders of the brown algae has been investigated with the electron microscope and a report on their occurrence is given, with particular reference to the results obtained with the light microscope by Simon (1954). Some illustrated detail of the structure of the pyrenoids and of the chromatophores is included. Pyrenoids were found to be present in the repr...

Some Impressions of British Farming

Some Impressions of the 1914 British Pharmacopœia

of a paper brought before the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society by the writer on November nth. No attempt has been made to treat the matter in minute detail, and only certain outstanding alterations have been dealt with and criticised, and special reference has been made to those subjects which concern medical practitioners. One of the most striking features of the new work is the introduction...