Harvey travelled from Ireland to study Australian seaweeds and algae. He was known to collect hundreds of specimens a day. This plate depicts the specimen ‘Claudea Elegans, Lamour’ which was found off the coast of Western Australia.
William Henry Harvey: Phycologia Australica (1858)
15 Jun
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