Marine Algae (Overseas)
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of approximately 500 marine algae specimens that were not collected from the waters off the British and Irish Isles. These date from 1825 to 1899. This collection contains pressed and dried specimens mounted onto large herbarium sheets and also includes some microscopic slides. The Glasgow Museums civic collection (GLAM) has a small number of historical specimens, from locations such as Biarritz and San Sebastian, the Cape of Good Hope, India, the Indian Ocean, the Caribbean and Cape Horn. Many specimens relate to D Robertson and associate collectors, but there are specimens collected by the Rev. J Fleming, Dr R D Thomson and J D Hooker. The Strathclyde collection (GGO) comprises an estimated 400 specimens, some of which are linked to John Scouler’s early voyage in 1825 to the west of North America, while others are from more widespread locations such as New Zealand, the Cape of Good Hope, Florida, the Falkland Islands, the Faroe Islands, Gibraltar and Lisbon. The Faroe material was possibly collected by Professor Traill, and material from the Falklands was from the Ross expedition. The largest and most important collection is the set of Prof. W H Harvey’s Australian algae, which contain over 200 specimens, dated around 1854; there are a number of co-type specimens. The Glasgow University (GL) overseas collection is housed by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
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