Seaweed

Specimens of seaweed between two boards covered with black baize. A label on the cover is inscribed inscribed: 'Collection of sea weed made by Capt. Crozier when surveying the southern and Antarctic Sea 1839-1842.' There are ten speciments. collected in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand in 1841. Each specimen is pressed between paper sheets with the date and place of collection noted by Crozier.

Object Details

ID: AAB0212
Collection: Natural History
Type: Seaweed
Display location: Not on display
Events: Antarctic Exploration: James Clark Ross's voyage, 1838-1843
Date made: 1839-1842; 1839-42
Credit: On loan to the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, from the Hopton Hall Derbyshire Collection. Kindly lent by the Gell Muniment Trustees
Measurements: Overall: 18 mm x 229 mm x 143 mm