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### Author
Hassall, Arthur Hill (1817-1894), British public analyst, sanitary specialist, and phycologist; from 1877 at San Remo.
**Abbreviated name**: *Hassall* \[standard form in IPNI: *Hassall*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection BM|BM]]; dupl. [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection W|W]]. – Letters at [[Collection BM|BM]] (Berkeley corr.) and [[Collection K|K]].
#### Bibliography and biography
BB p. 142; CSP 3: 208, 7: 918, 15: 678; Desmond p. 293; De Toni 1: lxi, 2: lxiii; GR cat. p. 64 ("Hassall"); IH 2: 259; Jackson p. 242; Nordstedt p. 17.
- Anon., Bot. Not. 1895: 37; Nature 49: 581. 1894; Trans. Penzance nat. Hist. Soc. 1890/91: 231-232. (*n.v*., fide Desmond); The Analyst 1894(May): 97-98; J. Bot. 32: 190-191. 1894.
- Cupp, E. E., Mar. plankton diatoms W. Coast Amer. 215. 1943.
- Hassall, A. H., The narrative of a busy life. An autobiography. London 1893, p. vi, iii, 166, i, 82.
- Koster, J. T., Taxon 18: 553. 1969.
#### Eponymy
*Hassallia* Trevisan (1848); *Hassallia* Berkeley ex Bornet & Flahault (1887).
### Publications
##### n.2455. A history of the British freshwater algae
**Title**
*A history of the British freshwater algae*, including descriptions of the Desmideae and Diatomaceae. With upwards of one hundred plates, illustrating the various species... London (S. Highley; H. Baillière), Edinburgh (Sutherland & Knox), Paris (J. B. Baillière), Leipzig (T. O. Weigel). 1845. 2 vols. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Hist. Brit. freshwater alg.*
**Notes**
*1*: Jul-Dec 1845 (p. vi: Jul 1845), p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-462, \[1, err.\].
*2*: Jul-Dec 1845, p. \[1\]-24, *pl. 1-103* (55 as 'lvi'), monochrome liths. drawn by Hassall (Nordstedt (1896) notes that Hassall copied, imprecisely, several figures of desmids from Ralfs and Ehrenberg.).
*Copies*: G, MO, NY, Teyler, US.
*Reissue*: 1852, London (Taylor, Walton, and Maberly,...), 2 vols. Oct. *Copies*: MICH (vol. 2), NY, UC.– *1*: \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-462, \[1, err.\];*2*: \[1\]-24, *pl*. *1-103* (id.).
*Reissue*: 1857, London (Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts), 2 vols. Oct.
*Copy*: UC.– *1*: \[i\*, h.t.\], \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-462, \[1, err.\];*2*: \[1\]-24, *pl. 1-103* (id.).
*Ref*.: Anon., Bot. Zeit. 2: 424-425. 1844, 5: 111-115. 1847.