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front cover of:
Seafaring Scientist: Alfred Goldsborough Mayor, Pioneer in Marine Biology.
by Lester D. Stephens & Dale R. Calder
University of South Carolina Press, 220 pages, plates
This is a highly recommendable book for anyone intreested in the history of hydrozoan systematics and marine biology in general. Reveals many interesting personal details and how science worked around 1900.
Mayer [changed to Mayor after WWI] is the author of the important monography on all medusae
"Medusae of the World" and many other important taxonomic works.
Mayer, A. G. 1910. Medusae of the world. Hydromedusae, Vols. I & II. Scyphomedusae, Vol III. Carnegie Institution, Washington, pp. 735, plates 1-76.
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