JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. XVIII : January, 1917 No. 265 
SOME ECONOMIC USES AND POSSIBILITIES OF THE 
SEAWEEDS* 
(WITH PLATES 189-190) 
The seaweeds, or marine algae, as most of them are known to 
tide-lines or in water that is fancae ies shallow, few of them 
being found attached to the bottom in water that is more than 
two hundred feet deep. on one goes pomiyerd along our At 
New York 
ous and abundant, this abundance being especially pronounced 
in northern Massachusetts, the coast of Maine, the souther: 
coasts of New Brunswick and ne ova See and certain parts o 
Newfoundland. Iti t ig the seashore even in 
y 
[Journal for December (17: 209-246) was issued January 19, 1917] 
* Abstracted and adapted from an illustrated lecture given at The New York 
B. ical d Ss, b 1915. 
