Rhodora 
JOURNAL OF 
THE NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB 
Vol. 17. May, 1915. No. 197. 
SOME ALGAE FROM THE CHINCHA ISLANDS. 
FRANK S. COLLINS. 
Dr. M. A. Howe has recently published an interesting and thor- 
ough paper on the marine algae of Peru ! based chiefly on collections 
made from 1906 to 1908 by Dr. Robert E. Coker, while acting as 
fisheries expert for the Peruvian government. In addition to this 
collection Dr. Howe has included in his paper all the earlier records 
for the Peruvian coast, revising these records by inspection and com- 
parison of original specimens. The result is a paper of 185 pages 
with 66 plates; this coast, in regard to which algological data were 
few and far between, thus becomes one of the best known regions, 
outside of the "home regions" of the North Atlantic and the Medi- 
terranean. | 
In looking over Dr. Howe's book, there was recalled to my mind a 
small collection of álgae from the Chincha Islands, off the Peruvian 
coast, which I looked over in 1895, but had hardly thought of since. 
In that year the late Prof. Francis L. Harvey sent me from the Maine 
State College (now the University of Maine) at Orono, a lot of algae 
for determination; most of them were from the coast of Maine, and 
were familiar species, but there was among them this lot of about 
15 sheets, referred to as ‘Chincha Islands specimens” but with no 
record as to collector or date. More than half were well known 
species, a few I could name only with a doubt, and as to two I could 
give no name whatever; this I find on going back to the memoranda 
made at the time. So much having been recalled to my mind, I wrote 
to Prof. M. A. Chrysler, now in charge of botany at the University 
! Marshall Avery Howe, The marine algae of Peru; Mem. Torrey Bot. Club, Vol. 
XV, p. 1, 1914. 
