Flathead Lake Biological Station: Sentinel of the Lake Since 1899

Three letters from the Sheina Marshall archive at the former University Marine Biological Station Millport (UMBSM) reveal the pivotal significance of Sheina Marshall's father, Dr John Nairn Marshall, behind the scheme planned by Glasgow University's Regius Professor of Zoology, John Graham Kerr. He proposed to build an alternative marine station facility on Cumbrae's adjacent island of Bute in the Firth of Clyde in the early years of the twentieth century to cater predominantly for marine researchers.

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Illustrations and the genesis of Barrett and Yonge's Collins pocket guide to the sea shore (1958)

Archives of Natural History ◽

10.3366/anh.2010.0009 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 37 (2) ◽

pp. 274-291 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

P. G. Moore

Keyword(s):

Crucial Role ◽

British Isles ◽

Publishing History ◽

Biological Station ◽

Marine Biological ◽

Illustrated Text ◽

History Of ◽

The University

Twenty nine items of correspondence from the mid-1950s discovered recently in the archives of the University Marine Biological Station Millport, and others made available by one of the illustrators and a referee, shed unique light on the publishing history of Collins pocket guide to the sea shore. This handbook, generally regarded as a classic of its genre, marked a huge step forwards in 1958; providing generations of students with an authoritative, concise, affordable, well illustrated text with which to identify common organisms found between the tidemarks from around the coasts of the British Isles. The crucial role played by a select band of illustrators in making this publication the success it eventually became, is highlighted herein. The difficulties of accomplishing this production within commercial strictures, and generally as a sideline to the main employment of the participants, are revealed. Such stresses were not helped by changing demands on the illustrators made by the authors and by the publishers.

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Some small-sized Cosmarium (Conjugatophyceae, Desmidiales) from sphagnum bogs of Moscow Region

Novosti sistematiki nizshikh rastenii ◽

10.31111/nsnr/2013.47.13 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 47 ◽

pp. 13-20

Author(s):

O. V. Anissimova

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscopy ◽

Scanning Electron Microscopy ◽

Cell Wall ◽

Moscow Region ◽

Biological Station ◽

Sphagnum Bogs ◽

Different Seasons ◽

Scanning Electron

Algae samples were collected during different seasons from 1997 to 2011 in two swamps located at Zvenigorod Biological Station in Moscow Region. There were found 25 Cosmarium species and varieties, 9 taxa of them being new to the region. Descriptions of the taxa were specified by observation of cell wall ornamentation with light and scanning electron microscopy. Original descriptions, photos and drawings of algae are presented.

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Peronosporales of Skadovsky Zvenigorod Biological Station (Moscow Region)

Novosti sistematiki nizshikh rastenii ◽

10.31111/nsnr/2018.52.1.91 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 52 (1) ◽

pp. 91-100

Author(s):

E. Yu. Blagoveshchenskaya

Keyword(s):

Downy Mildew ◽

European Part ◽

Moscow Region ◽

State University ◽

Biological Station ◽

Annotated List ◽

European Part Of Russia ◽

First Time ◽

Moscow State University

The paper provides the results of seven-year study of downy mildew on Skadovsky Zvenigorod Biological Station of Moscow State University (ZBS MSU, Moscow Region). A total of 29 species of Peronosporales (Oomycota) were revealed during the study. An annotated list of species is presented, among them Peronospora anemones is recorded for the first time for Russia, P. chelidonii and P. stachydis are new for the European part of Russia, 8 species are new for the Moscow Region.

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