Album of 18 algae specimens mounted on 18 sheets (each approximately 330 x 155 mm), each captioned with the Latin name, and details of the location and date the specimen was collected in manuscript in French on the mounts.  Loosely laid in to folding portfolio, folding case.

"The Red sea has been a region of natural history exploration by European scientists...The first record of marine algae in the Red Sea was by Strand (a pupil of Linnaeus's), who in his thesis on the flora of Palestine listed three species. The first person to collect marine algae from the Saudi Arabian Red Sea Coast was the Danish botanist and explorer Forsskal in the 18th century who, in the month of November 1762, made a collection of seaweeds from the Sea of Jeddah...In the early years of the 19th century a British admiral Viscount Valentia made collections of algae form the Red Sea...several other workers, including medical doctors and amateurs collected marine algae from the Red Sea during the rest of the 19th century" (Beni-Suef University Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, Vol. 3/4, Dec. 2014, pp.278-285).  

Anne Henry Husson was a French botanist from Nancy, and a pioneer of early photography. He lived in Egypt where he worked as the director of the botanical garden and conservator for the museum of natural history for the Kasr el Ain. [Laid-in:] Photocopy of an article about Husson: "L'album photographique d'Anne-Henry Husson...Regards d'un colon nanceien dur l'Egypte moderne." From: Annales de l'Est, 1985, no. 4, pp.261-199. The sheets stab-sewn in wrappers.