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the linear dimensions of N. pusilla as shown in Smith's 

 Brit. Diatoms, PI. XVII, Fig. 145. Further examination 

 of the Quinnipiac material shows many otlier species of 

 which I can find no description in any publication access- 

 ible to me ; many of these occur sparingly at other places 

 along the Connecticut shore. 



I had intended to devote considerable time early in the 

 season of 1893, to a more thorough examination of the 

 deposit at Leete's Island and of the neighboring waters ; 

 but the derangement of business caused by tlie World's 

 Fair prevented, and I did not get at work there until the 

 latter part of August, just before the great storm of that 

 month. This was an unusual storm for this locality, and 

 stirred up the usually comparatively quiet waters of the 

 sound to an uncommon extent. Standing upon the point 

 between Leete's Bay and Little Harbor, the dash of the 

 breakers upon the outermost of the Thimble Islands was 

 an interesting sight. On one of these islands was a sea- 

 side cottage surrounded by a grove of trees ; the spray 

 was sometimes driven fifty feet above the tops of the 

 highest trees, and descended in a blinding cloud which 

 would blot the entire Island from sight. The salt spray 

 was carried inland and killed the leaves of the trees for 

 a distance of two miles from the shore in some places, 

 the fruit trees near the shore being entirely denuded of 

 foliage and afterwards starting into flower. When I 

 called on my friend Mr. R. C. Leete in October, his or- 

 chard of apple and plum trees was in full flower. 



Assisted by Mr. Irving Leete I made soundings in 

 Leete's Bay, in Great Haibor, and both sides the reef 

 that extends westward from Sachem's Head, and outside 

 the reef some miles into Long Island Sound, and west- 

 ward toward Thimble Islands past the buoy that marks 

 the channel. In all these places I found a soft bottom 

 excepting in the outer soundings in the deep water of the 

 sound. I had intended to explore the shallow waters 



