8 Notice of Harvey’s Marine Alg@ of North America. 
but, reading in them the evidence of their relation to their Maker, we 
shall be led on to investigate our own. 
‘I do not assert that this study is, of itself, sufficient to make men 
religious. But as the contemplation of any great work of art generally 
excites in us a two-fold admiration—admiration of the work itself, and 
Yet we may 
whole life to elucidate their structure ; and after all may fail to recog- 
nize the being of Him who has fashioned them. Such blindness is 
until a ‘stronger than he’ shall come.”—pp. § : 
t is to be noted that this is a complete treatise, comprising 
descriptions of all the species of this country, those of the west- 
ern as well as of the eastern coast, and from the Arctic shores to 
Mexico ; and that it is our only work on the subject. It is there- 
house of Geo. P. Putnam, New York, at a price which barely 
covers the cost of their production. Copies of this first part 
bound in cloth sell, we believe, for $3, those in paper covers for 
$2.50. We trust it will find a ready sale, not only that so admir- 
able work may be widely diffused, but also that the Institution 
may be encouraged by this first and costly experiment to send 
forth other treatises and memoirs in the same way, the cost and 
risk of which is too great for private enterprise to assume. Our 
only wonder is that the Institution can accomplish so much as it 
does with its limited and divided resources. But even if its 
must cease to be issued in a way that renders them generally ac- 
cessible, and the edition be nearly restricted to the collected vol- 
the Smithsonian Contribution 
umes of the ia ions. We hope, therefore, 
that the demand for this History of the Marine Algx of North 
comm an its merits. A. G. 
America may be 
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