[f. L. alga sea-weed + -(O)LOGY.] That part of botanical science that relates to algæ or seaweeds.
1849. Landsborough, Brit. Seaweeds, Pref. 7. British algology is making … rapid progress.
1881. Hervey, Sea Mosses, 42. The earliest American worker in the field of algology.
