Phycodrys

This user was, until July 2007, a curator in Botany in the Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland. His main interest was in the algae, however he was also interested in lichens and birds. He intended to read the Tutorial some time! but it is a long job! Why study algae? "To be useless, various and abstruse is a sufficient recommendation of a science to make it pleasing to me." (- Harvey, W.H. in reference to algology as noted in Fisher, L. 1869. Memoir of W.H.Harvey).

Favorite words: schadenfreude; obfuscation. It has been said that I am a "hyperpedant". Osborne 10:35, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

This user lives in the United Kingdom.

Morton, Osborne (1 December 2003). The Marine Macroalgae of County Donegal, Ireland. Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society. 27: 3–164.

I have previously edited Wikipedia with the accounts User:Osborne (contributions) and User:Gigartina (contributions).

Articles I have started include:- C.Douglas Deane; Elmwood Hall; Eifion Jones; Ceramium; Ceramium botryocarpum; Ceramium ciliatum; Fucus spiralis; Gastroclonium ovatum; Plocamium cartilagineum; Catenella caespitosa; Odonthalia dentata;