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hope to follow up at an early date this West Indian Catalogue with 

 one of the Marine Algae of the Indian Ocean, towards which I have 

 already amassed much material, and made numerous determinations. 

 Finally, to return to the West Indian Eegion proper, I would 

 venture to point out that the 347 species recorded as peculiar to 

 the West Indian marine algal flora, out of a total of 788 species 

 composing the flora, is hardly a proportion that will stand. The 

 advance of knowledge will doubtless lead to their distribution being 

 extended, and it may be anticipated that this will be more the case 

 than the discovery of new species within the region itself. Still it 

 must be admitted that there are great portions of the region that 

 have never been explored by the collector of Algas, and outside the 

 Islands we know hardly anything. The coast of the Gulf of Mexico 

 has been ascertained to be barren, but the whole of the north coast 

 of South America is absolutely a blank, but for a few species from 

 La Guayra, and it may well repay examination. 



Appended is a list of authorities geographically arranged : 



Venezuela (La Guayra). Liebman. Quoted in Kiitzing's ' Species 



Algarum,' and in Harvey, Nereis Bor. Amer. 

 Grenada. Murray, in Herb. Mus. Brit. 

 Barbadoes. DicJcie, in Linn. Soc. Journ. (Bot.), xiv. 

 Martinique. Montayne, Plantes Cell. Nouv. Cent. III. : Ann. Sci. 



Nat., Ser. ii., Tom. xviii. 

 Guadeloupe. Maze et Schramm, 'Essai de Classification des Algues 



de la Guadeloupe.' 



St. Thomas. Challenger' list in Linn. Soc. Journ. (Bot.), xiv. 

 St. Thomas and other Danish West Indian Islands. Hohenack, ' Meer- 



algen.' 



St. Croix. Miss Dix. Quoted in Harvey, loc. cit. 

 Jamaica. Sir Hans Sloane, in Herb. Mus. Brit. Chitty, in Herb. 



Mus. Brit. 

 Cuba. Ramon de la Sagra, Hist. Nat. de Cuba (Montagne) ; Algae 



Wrightianae. Farlow, in 'American Naturalist' (Cuban Sea 



Weeds), vol. v. 1871. 

 Vera Cruz. Liebman. Quoted as above. 

 Yucatan. Schott, in Herb. Mus. Brit. 

 Florida. Harvey, Nereis, Bor. Amer. Melvill, Journ. Bot. 1875. 



Farlow, Anderson <& Eaton, Alg. Exsicc. Amer. Bor. See 



also Farlow's List of Algae in United States Fish. Commission 



Keport, 1873-74 and 1874-75 (published in 1876). 

 Bahamas. Ellis <& Solander. Also some material (not much) by 



various collectors in Herb. Mus. Brit. 

 Bermuda. Kemp, 'Canadian Naturalist,' vol. ii. 1857. Eein, 



Bericht iiber d. Senckenberg. Gesellsch. 1872-73, p. 151. 



'Challenger' list in Linn. Soc. Journ. (Bot.), xiv. Farlow, 



Anderson <& Eaton, Alg. Exsicc. Amer. Bor, 



