Live protist curation at the Scottish Association for Marine Science, 1884–2017

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
John G. Day ◽  
Michael Francis Turner
Keyword(s):  
Culture Collection ◽  
Ex Situ ◽  
Marine Science ◽  
Microbial Biodiversity ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
The Past ◽  
Marine Biological Association ◽  
Marine Station ◽  
Cultivation Techniques

Understanding and exploiting marine microbial biodiversity is a huge task. Integral to this is the capacity to identify and maintain exemplar taxa ex situ, so that they may be studied or utilized. This paper focuses on protists, primarily photosynthetic protists, including microalgae and macroalgae, as well as the prokaryotic cyanobacteria. It draws together the strands of activities undertaken by scientists in the fields of taxonomy, systematics and algal cultivation associated with the Scottish Association for Marine Science at Oban and its predecessors: the Scottish Marine Station, originally located on a converted lighter, The Ark, in a flooded quarry in Granton near Edinburgh, then subsequently at Millport on the Clyde; the Marine Biological Association – West Scotland at Millport; and the Scottish Marine Biological Association, founded in 1914, initially at Millport and subsequently at Dunstaffnage, Oban. The work undertaken is interwoven with the historical status and development of protistan curation over the past 130 years. The paper also examines the inter-linkages of the organization with the development of cultivation techniques and the provision of biological resources from 1914 by the then newly established Scottish Marine Biological Association to the Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa today. Finally, we briefly outline current developments that will influence the curation and scientific exploitation of these diverse organisms in the future.

scholarly journals The Scottish Marine Biological Association

1949 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-96 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Financial Aid ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Premature Death ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Marine Biological Association ◽  
Pelagic Eggs ◽  
Marine Station ◽  
Working Out ◽  
Eggs And Larvae

The Scottish Marine Biological Association has a historical link with the Royal Society through the Challenger Expedition which took place in response to representations by the Council of the Society. Its inspirer and director was Professor Charles Wyville Thomson of Edinburgh, and the administrative centre for the working out of its results was situated in that city. After Wyville Thomson’s premature death in 1882 his place was taken by the senior naturalist of the expedition John Murray. In addition to his work as Head of the Challenger Office, Murray, with the financial aid of many personal friends, founded the small Scottish Marine Station built at the margin of a submerged quarry at Granton and having as tender a small yacht the Medusa , fully equipped with sounding and dredging apparatus, and a floating barge laboratory the Ark . The activities of the station under its superintendent J. T. Cunnings ham were directed specially towards fishery problems—the spawning grounds of the herring, the pelagic eggs and larvae of the other food fishes, and that special enemy of the line fishermen, the hagfish Myxine .

Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

1943 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 745-752
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
The Past ◽  
Marine Biological Association ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Delayed Action ◽  
Grand Hotel

The Council and the Officers. During the year the Association has suffered a heavy loss in the death of Dr Guy Wood, who had been a Governor representing the Fishmongers' Company since 1931 and had been Honorary Treasurer for the past seven years. The Council also regret to note the death of Dr Cresswell Shearer, F.R.S., a Founder of the Association.Major E. G. Christie-Miller has been nominated by the Fishmongers' Company to succeed Dr Guy Wood as a Governor, and at the meeting held in October he was elected Honorary TreasurerFour ordinary meetings of the Council were held during the year. Three of these were held in the rooms of the Royal Society and the thanks of the Association are due to the Society for this privilege. One meeting, in April, was held at Plymouth: it took place in the Grand Hotel since there were at the time unexploded bombs in and near the laboratory premises. The average attendance at the four meetings was twelve.Air Raid Damage to the Plymouth Laboratory. No additional damage of any consequence has been incurred during the year, though a few windows have been broken. The delayed action bombs which fell shortly before the April meeting were safely removed.For the first three months of the year the staff of the Laboratory was largely engaged in repairing the damage occasioned in the March raids and though much will need to be done before the buildings are fully restored most of the laboratories have been made usable.

Mediomastus fragilis Rasmussen (Polychaeta: Capitellidae), a species newly recorded from British Waters

1979 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 757-760 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynda M. Warren
Keyword(s):  
West Coast ◽  
Marine Science ◽  
The West ◽  
Liverpool Bay ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Marine Biological Association ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
University College ◽  
Science Labs

Mediomastus Hartman (1944) is a genus of capitellid polychaetes with ten species of which only M. fragilis, described from the Danish Isefjord by Rasmussen (1973), has been found in European waters. In 1963 Clark & Dawson recorded the presence of an incomplete specimen of a capitellid from the west coast of Scotland and tentatively assigned it to Mediomastus. However, collections made by Dr P. E. Gibbs (Marine Biological Association, U.K.) in the Shetlands during April 1974 revealed a large number of capitellids subsequently identified as fragilis. More recently M. fragilis. has been recorded in large numbers during sampling programmes carried out by Dr A. Walker (Marine Science Labs., University College of N. Wales, Menai Bridge) in Dublin Bay and Liverpool Bay, and Mr J. Hunter (Highland River Purification Board, Dingwall, Ross-shire) has collected specimens from Dornoch Firth and Cromarty Firth, Easter Ross.

Stanley Wells Kemp 1882–1945

1946 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. C. Hardy
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Marine Science ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Marine Biological Association ◽  
The United Kingdom

Stanley Kemp, Sc.D., F.R.S., Secretary of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom and Director of the Plymouth Laboratory, died on 16 May 1945 at the age of 62. His death at the height of his power has come as a most grievous blow to both marine science and zoology in general.

scholarly journals Centenary of the Journal

1987 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 463-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. M. S. ◽  
J. V. H. ◽  
A. J. S. ◽  
E. K. R.
Keyword(s):  
Substantial Part ◽  
Marine Science ◽  
Present Issue ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Marine Biological Association ◽  
History Of ◽  
Serial Publication

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.

Marine Biodiversity: Causes and Consequences

1996 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.F.G. Ormond
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Marine Conservation ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Marine Biodiversity ◽  
Marine Science ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Marine Biological Association ◽  
The World

A meeting on Marine biodiversity: causes and consequences was held in York on 30 August – 2 September 1994, organized by the Marine Biological Association and the Scottish Association for Marine Science and supported by the World Wildlife Fund for Nature, the Natural History Museum and the Marine Conservation Society. The following 16 papers were first presented at this meeting.

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