The First International Multi‐Disciplinary Serial Publication Devoted to Marine Science:
            Les Fonds de la Mer?

The first number of the Journal-of the Marine Biological Association appeared in August 1887, during the final stages of the building of the Laboratory, while research was being carried out from rented rooms in the Barbican. To celebrate the centenary of this outstanding serial publication in marine science, and the centenary of the opening of the Laboratory in June next year, we are including in the present issue an updated account of the history of the Association, based on a version originally published in 1984 to celebrate the founding of the Association in March 1884. We are indebted to the Council of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science for permission to reprint a substantial part of the text that appeared in their Transactions for 1984.

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Journal of Marine Science Research and Oceanography

10.33140/jmsro ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

Science Research ◽

Marine Science ◽

Marine Science Research

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James Thomas Marshall's correspondence (1887–1895) with Scotland's Alexander Somerville: practical, personal and controversial matters in conchology

Archives of Natural History ◽

10.3366/e0260954108000582 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 36 (1) ◽

pp. 4-25 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

P. G. MOORE

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Taxonomic Revision ◽

Marine Science ◽

The One ◽

Clyde Sea ◽

Sea Area ◽

Molluscan Species

Attention is drawn to the one side remaining of a nineteenth-century correspondence addressed to Alexander Somerville that is housed in the archives of the Scottish Association for Marine Science at Oban, concerning conchological matters. Previously unstudied letters from James Thomas Marshall shed new light on the practicalities of offshore dredging by nineteenth-century naturalists in the Clyde Sea Area; on personalities within conchology; on the controversies that raged among the conchological community about the production of an agreed list of British molluscan species and on the tensions between conchology and malacology. In particular, the criticism of Canon A. E. Norman's ideas regarding taxonomic revision of J. G. Jeffreys's British conchology, as expressed by Marshall, are highlighted.

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