Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A History of the British Freshwater Algæ, Vol. 1 of 2: Including Descriptions of the Desmideæ and Diatomaciæ; With Upwards of One Hundred Plates, Illustrating the Various Species
While the Preface forms the first part of every work, as the name implies, and precedes always the descriptive matter, it is as invariably the last which is written, and the last often to be read.
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