Introduction to Freshwater (1984)- Algae Allan Pentecost

First Edition 1984
Hardback
Edition Notes:

This book is designed to assist both amateur and professional algologists with the identification of the commoner freshwater algae and to bridge a gap between the shorter guides and the expensive reference works, many of which are in foreign languages or out of print.

People have been fascinated by freshwater algae since the first good microscopes became available in the early eighteen century but the first British book on the subject was Dillwyn's British Confervae published in 1809.