Seaweed

Specimens of seaweed between sheets of paper in a paper package. Inscribed: 'Specimens of moss and seaweed made by Capt. Crozier when surveying S. Australia 1839-42.' There are approximately 32 specimens collected at Cape Horn and in the Falkland Islands during 1842. Each specimen is pressed between paper sheets with the date and place of collection noted by Crozier.

Object Details

ID: AAB0213
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: 235 mm x 140 mm x 9 mm