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search interest came about 1880, when he made a series of visits 

 to the seashore in Eastern Connecticut and collected marine 

 algae. The algae were named according to the information con- 

 tained in Hervey's Sea Mosses, and the phycological experience 

 thus derived was supplemented by the later association with 

 Eaton and Saflord, already referred to. An important influence 

 which during this early period further stimulated Professor 

 Setchell's growing enthusiasm for algology was an acquaintance- 

 ship, made through Eaton, with Mr. Isaac Holden, of Bridge- 

 port, Connecticut. He was Vice-President and Business Manager 

 of the Wheeler and Wilson Sewing Machine Company, and 

 spent his week ends and holidays in exploring the seashore and 

 studying his collections. While Setchell was at Yale, and later 

 when he was at Harvard, Holden and he collected and studied 

 together and ultimately formulated a project which was to be 

 realized some years afterward when they associated with them- 

 selves another amateur phycologist, Mr. Frank S. Collins, of 

 Maiden, Massachusetts. In the absence of any manual of North 

 American algae, and because they were not then in a position 

 to prepare one, they proposed to issue series of mounted and 

 named specimens which would make available to the inter- 

 ested public the products of their collections and studies. The 

 ultimate result was the preparation of 51 fascicles of the Phyco- 

 theca-Boreali-Americana (1895-1919), which distributed to cor- 

 respondents throughout the world some 200,000 specimens and 

 which represent a collection that will always be fundamental 

 in investigations of the algae of North America. 



To the triumvirate who gained for the Phycotheca-Boreali- 

 Americana its initial success there was added, during Professor 

 Setchell's early years in Berkeley, N. L. Gardner, another phy- 

 cologist who at the beginning had amateur status only. In 1897, 



