A dissertation on the seaweeds of the Maldives
Harold Edmund Hackett’s 1969 Duke dissertation, in a 1971 facsimile, documents marine algae across the Maldive Islands during early atoll research tied to the International Indian Ocean Expedition.
The story
The Maldive Islands are tropical atolls, low islands built of coral. Harold Edmund Hackett, working in the Department of Biology at Duke University, studied the marine algae that grow there and where in the atoll environment each kind is found, and presented the work as his doctoral dissertation in 1969. It is connected with the International Indian Ocean Expedition and is still cited by people studying the marine plants of the Maldives.
The thesis reached its readers not as a printed book but through microfilm. This copy is an authorised facsimile, filmed and then printed by xerography at University Microfilms in Ann Arbor, at the time a Xerox company, in 1971, two years after Hackett submitted it. The typescript was filmed exactly as received and is reproduced crisply; even the signatures on the approval page are photographic copies, not ink.
This copy is in a blue institutional binding with a printed title label, worn at the corners and spine, with a library WITHDRAWN stamp. Bibliographies give the work 319 pages; this copy has not been collated.
Details
- Date
- 1971 facsimile (1969 Duke thesis)
- Publisher
- University Microfilms (A Xerox Company), Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Edition
- Authorized University Microfilms microfilm-xerographic facsimile produced 1971 of 1969 Duke University Ph.D. dissertation
- Binding
- paper_boards: Blue heavy card institutional wrapper or paperboard binding
- Condition
- Blue institutional cloth/paper-covered binding with pasted printed title label, adhesive-removal patch on lower cover, scuffed corners and modest spine wear. Clear 'WITHDRAWN' library stamp on front paper, minor handpenciled marks, crisp reproduced typescript inside. No full collation.
- Stamp
- WITHDRAWN