Grove & Sturt’s Oamaru diatoms

In 1886, an unremarkable rock specimen labelled „Kaolinite” was displayed in London as part of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition. This whitish or cream-colored rock came from the outcrops close to the town of Oamaru, on the South Island of New Zealand, and was only discovered a few years earlier, most likely in 1882, by …

Robert Kaye Greville

13 December is Robert Kaye Greville’s birthday anniversary. He was born in 1794 in Australia. This post is not intended as his biography, as you can easily look up the basic facts from Greville's life on the web, but rather as a way of remembering a remarkable person on the diatom scene. Greville was one …