THE FORESHORES OF KEA. 275 



The S. W. angle of Britain is extremely ricli in marine algae. 

 Stackhouse was the first to describe many of the rarest Faci, 

 such as F. Palmetta, F. Diftcors, F. Membranaceus, and others. 



I believe the primary scope of this Institution is rather to 

 collect and register local facts than to go far afield for nature's 

 greater wonders, and when we reflect that a great master in the 

 regions of nature and of art has declared that in a few yards of 

 an old hedge a thoughtful mind may find life-long studies, we 

 see how vast a field is oj^ened uj) by " the Foreshores of Kea." 



