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quealhed a fund of ^10,000 for the increase of his herbarium and 

 library. ^ The latter, containing 712 volumes, also comes to Brown 

 University, together with his Chevalier and Smith & Beck's micro- 

 scopes and much valuable apparatus and material. With another 

 $25,000 left by the deceased Colonel, a professorship of Natural 

 History has been created. One of the duties of the professor is to 

 give lectures on Botany. 



In these random notes are stated only a few of the points suggested 

 by the subject. It will be seen that Brow^n University has received a 

 royal legacy, and has the nucleus upon which to build up a really 

 fine herbarium. The present situation of the plants, while meeting 

 the requirements of the will, is not at all what a botanist could wish. 

 The shelves are crowded and unfit for the purpose; there is no work- 

 room, and most of all, the books one needs for consultation are at 

 the extreme other end of the building. These draw-backs will be 

 rectified, no doubt, as time goes on. Our college is growing in every 

 way, and is making especially rapid strides in science since the ad- 

 vent of Dr. A. S. Packard, Jr. He asks the assistance and co-operation 

 of botanists throughout the country. Such as assist us will receive 

 every courtesy. 



Col. Olney's library contains many valuable illustrated books, to- 

 gether with those which are indispensable to a working systematist. 

 It is weak in morphological and histological works, but the Univer- 

 sity is fast supplying the deficiency. The botanical correspondence 

 covers many pages, and is carefully filed. Original letters from 

 Torrey, Gray, Hooker, Englemann, Canby, Thurber, and a host of 



others, will always afford a treasure house of information. 



W. W. Bailey. 



Brown University, Providence, Sept. 10, 1880. 



Let me add, by way of postscript, that the Providence Athenaeum 

 now possesses many fine botanical works, and that the Public Library 

 has requested- the Writer to make out a list for purchase. These, 

 with the collections of the college, of Mr. Bennett, of Mr. Arnold 

 Green, and the writer, afford a pretty good opportunity for useful 

 work. \^- H. B. 



93. A Larninaria new to the U. S.— In the month of August last, 



I collected on the coast of Maine, a Larninaria which I think must be 

 the species described by Agardh in his Species Algarum<i^L. longipes, 

 Bory. I have not been able to make comparison with an authentic 

 specimen of this species, but my plant corresponds very well with 



Agardh's description. 



The most striking character of the plant is its extreme length 

 compared with its breadth. In what appeared to be full grown plants, 

 the length was from one to two metres, and the breadth two to seven 

 centimetres, the last breadth being found only in the longest and 

 oldest plants, the tips of which had already begun to decay. I have 

 one specimen which now, in the dry state, measures as follows : length 

 of stipe, 12 cm.; lamina, i m. 45 cm.; breadth of lamina exactly i cm. 

 I think such proportions have never been met with in any other 



Larninaria. 



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