Excerpt from Phycologia Australica; Or, a History of Australian Seaweeds, Vol. 1: Comprising Coloured Figures and Descriptions of the More Characteristic Marine Algae of New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and Western Australia, and a Synopsis of All Known Australian Algae IN the year 1853 the Author undertook a botanical voyage to the Australian Colonies, with the sanction and under the au spices of the University of Dublin and of the Royal Dublin Society, both which corporate bodies contributed to his outfit, and, in great measure, supplied the funds on which he travelled. He visited in succession the Colonies of Western Australia, Vic toria, Tasmania, and New South Wales; and in the eighteen months which he spent on the Australian shores, collected, pre pared, and dried upwards of specimens of 600 species of Algae, besides incidentally making collections of marine zoology to a considerable extent, and drying land plants wherever he had the opportunity. Eull sets of his collections have been placed in the University Museum and Herbarium a set of the botanical collections, nearly as full, has been sent to the Hooke rian Herbarium at Kew; and the duplicate Algae that remained over have been sold towards a payment of the expenses of the journey. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.