376 BRITISH SEA-WEEDS. 



I have lately corresponded with Mr. M. C. Pike, Pool 

 Valley, Brighton, who prepares for sale fancy-work com- 

 posed of Sea-weeds, and also specimens for the herbarium. 

 They are free — or, what he calls, transferred — from the 

 paper, and when they are laid on a clear page, they are not 

 gummed to it in any way, but merely retained in the posi- 

 tion in which they are placed by very small cross slips of 

 paper, as is often done with dried specimens of flowering 

 plants. I learn that he has so great a sale that he can 

 with difficulty supply the demand, and I do not wonder at 

 it, for I could not have imagined that Sea-weeds could, in 

 this unattached way, have been so beautifully and tastefully 

 laid out. His mode of preparing them is a secret, and we 

 doubt not it will yield him a good remuneration for liis 

 great artistic skill. 



We doubt not that those who engage in the study of 

 Algology will thank us for the following instructions as to 

 the mode of preparing the fructification, &c., as objects for 

 the microscope. 



From the minuteness and delicacy of their structure, it 

 will at once be perceived that the aid of a good microscope, 

 or at least a powerful lens, is an indispensable requisite, in 

 prosecuting the study of the Algse in its scientific details. 

 The forceps, knives, and scissors, used in dissecting other 



