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The older collections, belonging to Columbia anes in- 
clude a number of specimens of historical interest, sent to 
fessor John Torrey by Dr. Jacob Whitman Bailey, who was je 
many years a distinguished teacher of the natural sciences at the 
United States Military Academy at West Point, by the elder 
Fic. 17. The Merman’s puis brush ne capitatus Lamarck), From 
muda, One half natural size. 
Agardh of Lund, Sweden, one of the founders of modern phy- 
cological science, and by several others among the well-known 
students and collectors of the algae during the early and middle 
portions of the last century. 
If, as is the usual fashion at the present day, the Characeae or 
stoneworts are to be included among the algae, the first notable 
accession to our collections in this department after the consoli- 
dation of the herbaria of Columbia University and the Garden 
was the donation by Dr. Timothy Field Allen, in 1901, of his 
collections of Characeae. Dr. Allen was for many years the 
leading American student of this group of plants and the collection 
