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(now Mrs. Gray) ; also of tlie Alg^e of Kliode Island, made by Mr. 

 S. T. Olney, who lias done so much to illustrate the botany of that 

 State, and by Mr. George Hunt. My gatherings from the same coasts 

 have since been much enriched by specimens from Dr. Silas Durkee, 

 of Boston, Dr. M. B. Koche, of New Bedford, and Mrs. P. P. Mudge, 

 of Lynn. 



To Professor Tuomey, of the University of Alabama, I feel especially 

 indebted for the care and kindness with which he formed for me an 

 interesting collection of the Alga3 of the Florida Keys, and the more 

 so because this collection was made purposely to aid me in my present 

 work. My friend Dr. Blodgett, of Key West, also, since my return 

 to Europe, has communicated several additional species, and is con- 

 tinuing his researches on that fertile shore. To the Eev. W. S. Hore, 

 now of Oxford, England, (a name well known to the readers of the 

 Phycologia Britannica,) I am indebted for a considerable bundle of 

 Well preserved specimens, gathered at Prince Edward's Island, by 

 Dr. T. E. Jeans ; and to the kindness of my old friend and chum, 

 Alexander Eliott^ of the Dockyard, Halifax, I owe the opportunity 

 of a fortnight's dredging in Halifax harbor, and many a pleasant 

 ramble in the vicinity. 



My personal collections of North American Algae have been made 

 at Halifax ; Nahant beach ; New York Sound ; Greenport, Long 

 Island ; Charleston harbor ; and Key West ; and are pretty full, 

 especially at the last named place, where I remained a month. 



The few Mexican species which find a place in my work have been 

 presented to me by Professor J. Agardh, of Lund, and were collected 

 by M. LiEBMAN. Those from California are derived partly from the 

 naturalists of Captain Beechey's voyage ; a few from the late David 

 Douglas ; and a considerable number brought by my predecessor, Dr. 

 Coulter, from Monterey Bay. I have received from Dr. F. J. Eu- 

 PRECHT, of St. Petersburg, several Algee from Kussian America; from 

 Sir John Kichardson a few Algfe of the Polar sea ; and various spe- 

 cimens of these plants, which have found their way from tlie North- 

 west Coast to the herbarium of Sir W. J. Hooker, have, with the 

 well-known liberality of that illustrious botanist, been freely placed 

 at my disposal. 



But I should not, in speaking of the Northwest Coast, omit to men- 

 tion a name which will ever be associated in my mind with that 

 interesting botanical region, the venerable Archibald Menzies, who 

 accompanied Vancouver, and whom I remember as one of the finest 

 specimens of a green old age that it has been my lot to meet. He 

 was the first naturalist to explore the cryptogamic treasures of the 

 Northwest, and to the last could recal with vividness the scenes he 

 had witnessed, and loved to speak of the plants he had discovered. 

 His plants, the companions of his early hardships, seemed to stir up 

 recollections of every circumstance that had attended their collection, 

 at a distance of more than half a century back from the time I speak 

 of. He it was who first possessed me with a desire to explore the 

 American shores — a desire which has followed me through life, though 

 as yet it has been but very imperfectly gratified. With this small 

 tribute to his memory, I may appropriately close this general expres- 

 sion of my thanks to those who have aided me in the present under- 

 taking. 



