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tion will be more particularly fixed on the Algæ, among which, there- 
fore, it is hoped he will reap an abundant harvest of new and beautiful 
forms, particularly among the more delicate and perishable kinds. The 
specimens will be all collected and carefully preserved either by himself 
or under his immediate oversight, with as much attention to neatness 
in displaying them as circumstances will admit. The filiform kinds 
will be displayed on white paper. 
- Dr. Harvey’s first collections will be made in Western Australia, at 
various points along the coast from Swan River to King George’s 
Sound. Three or four months will be devoted to this locality, from 
which it is intended to ship for England about March, 1854, the col- 
lections that shall have been made there. Dr. Harvey will then pro- 
ceed (perhaps touching for a short time at Adelaide) to Sydney and 
Van Diemen’s Land, from which a second shipment may be expected 
to be made about December, 1854; but no distribution of the collec- 
tions will take place till Dr. Harvey’s return to Europe in 1855. 
It is impossible at present to state the number of species which may 
be offered for sale. The number of subscription sets will be limited, a£ 
the most, to 50:—which will probably be of very unequal extent, the 
larger sets containing possibly 400 to 600 species, the smaller 200 to 
300. Subscribers who desire full suites will be entered for them in the 
order in which their names are received, the earlier consequently being 
entitled to the most numerous and valuable sets. The subscription 
will be. at the rate of £2. 5s. per 100 species; delivered, free of all 
charges for freight, commission, etc., either in Dublin, London, or 
Glasgow, as desired; and, to accommodate persons who do not wish 
for more than a sample of the Australian marine vegetation, small sets 
of 100 or 200 species, at the same rate, will be selected from the dupli- 
cates which may remain after supplying the general subscribers. The 
specimens will be numbered, and printed lists of numbers, with the 
habitat and a provisional name, will be furnished with the sets; these 
provisional names being subject to revision and correction, when time 
shall allow of the preparation and publication of a full synoptie table, 
which will then be distributed to subscribers. 
