Article Nº 0627 Scientist or naturalist Vol. I · p. 344
Busk (George)
George Busk was a naturalist who produced the earliest studies of Madeiran polyzoans (bryozoans), based on material sent by James Y. Johnson.
Professor and naturalist who studied the polyzoans of Madeira, basing his work on material supplied to him from here by James Yate Johnson. These studies, the earliest known on this branch of Madeira’s natural history, list 45 species in all and were published under the following titles: Zoophytology (Quart. Journ. Micros Sc. VI 1858); On Some Madeiran Polyzoa (Ibid., VI and VII, 1858 and 1859); and Catalogue of the Polyzoa collected by J. Y. Johnson, Esq. at Madeira, in the years 1859 and 1860 (Ibid., VIII and IX, 1860 and 1861).
People mentioned
- George Busk
- James Yate Johnson 1820–1900
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