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specimens, and with lier zeal and intelligence I doubt 

 not .that she will make many interesting discoveries on 

 that classic shore. I am under obligations, also, to Mrs. 

 Balfour, of Edinburgh, who, when residing in the Isle 

 of Arran last summer, with her husband. Professor of 

 Botany in the University of Edinburgh, engaged with 

 such zeal in Algological pursuits, that she has already 

 added to the marine flora of Scotland, and has thus helped 

 to save the credit of our Scottish naturalists, who, it is 

 alleged, allow English naturalists to surpass, even when 

 making only occasional visits to our truly-interesting land. 

 Nor must I forget to return my best thanks to Miss 

 Turner and to Miss White, for some of the rare and 

 beautiful Algse in which Jersey abounds. To many other 

 friends I lie under obhgations, which, I trust, I have 

 acknowledged in the body of this little work. 



