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anchors, and the top is washed away by the waves. It is very 

 light, and may be carried for a long distance, but in time small 

 pieces of floating seaweed get caught by the anchors, and gradually 

 the Cymodacea gets heavier, and, like an overburdened balloon, it 

 slowly sinks to the bottom. It then puts out the two or four 

 roots and commences a new life. 



The description of the plants in our first pool has taken so 

 much time that I shall only just mention the other places where 

 new specimens may be found. In the half-tide pool, among 

 others, the following may be obtained : — Ceramium, Corallina, 

 Polysiphonia, Chorda, and Haliseris. The pool at low water 

 mark will contain Callithamnion, other Polysiphonia, Gegartium, 

 Splachnidium, Zoonaria, and Chorda. The lowest pool can only 

 be visited occasionally, and only during calm weather. The 

 collector should be almost divested of clothes, and should carry a 

 long pole with an iron spade-like ending to loosen the specimens. 

 A bag should be used instead of a glass jar, as one is sure to slip 

 about. In this pool, you will find the ball-like Codium, lovely 

 Ceramium, and immense masses of Cystophora, so closely related 

 to the seaweeds which form the Sargasso seas. After a storm 

 treasures from the vasty deep will be thrown in heaps on the 

 shore, but they must be collected before the next tide draws 

 them back into the ocean. Amongst them we may find occasion- 

 ally the lovely Claudea elegans, red masses of Rhodymenia, 

 Nothea, Myriodesma, the Ballia with its ever changeful hues 

 from bright green to brown and red, and broken fragments of the 

 huge Microcystis. Before concluding, I would like to express 

 my gratitude to the officers in charge of the Botanic Museum, and 

 more particularly to Mr. Luehmann, whose courtesy and help was 

 of vital importance to me during my study of the names and 

 characters of the seaweeds I was fortunate enough to find. 



If our members would like to hear anything further as to the 

 structure, nourishment, and reproduction of the seaweed in the 

 last three tide pools, I should be only too pleased to give another 

 paper at some future time. 



REVIEW. 



" Life- Histories of North American Birds," Part ii. By 

 Charles Bendire, Captain and Brevet-Major U.S.A. (retired), 

 Honorary Curator of the Department of Oology, U.S. National 

 Museum — Special Bulletin No. 3. 



By the recent issue of Part ii. of Captain Charles Bendire's " Life- 

 Histories of North American Birds " this magnificent work has 

 been advanced another stage. From so wealthy an institution as 

 the United States National Museum at Washington one always 



