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Gardner, then a school teacher in Coupeville, Whidbey Island, 

 Washington, submitted to Professor Setchell his collections of 

 seaweeds from the Puget Sound region, an area which had 

 not been explored for marine algae in more than fifty years, 

 and where Gardner found unusually large numbers of new 

 or little-known species. The scientific and later personal and 

 professional relation thus established between Professors Setch- 

 ell and Gardner continued during the latter's undergraduate 

 years at the University of Washington and preparation for the 

 doctorate at Berkeley. For many years as colleagues at the Uni- 

 versity of California they have collaborated in the preparation 

 of a series of monographs, intended ultimately to cover the algal 

 flora of the Pacific Coast. 



In his senior year at Yale, Professor Setchell had decided to 

 continue his studies in cryptogamic botany, as an avocation at 

 least. The question of a vocation, which had necessarily to be 

 answered soon, resolved itself in his mind into a choice between 

 becoming a teacher of the classics in preparatory schools, taking 

 up the profession of medicine, or attempting to carry on his 

 botanical studies to the point where he might hope to obtain a 

 university appointment. This third alternative, although attrac- 

 tive, seemed to him least likely of success until, on the recom- 

 mendation of Eaton and with the aid of W G. Farlow, he ob- 

 tained an appointment as a Morgan Fellow in Harvard Univer- 

 sity to pursue studies in both botany and zoology. 



Professor Setchell's period of graduate study at Cambridge 

 (1887-1890) was replete with those broadening and refining 

 influences, scientific and cultural, which today, because of early 

 specialization and the administrative and curricular pressure 

 upon faculty and students, are so rarely available to the graduate 

 student in most American universities. In Farlow's laboratory 



