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Horace Averill, of Brooklyn. This was especially rich in the 
local forms and included also many species obtained by exchange 
from other parts of the world. A third collection of algae, chiefly 
marine, purchased by the Garden, was that brought together by 
the late Colonel Nicolas Pike, who communicated to Professor W. 
Fic. 19. Ciotea conglutinata (Ell, & Soland.) Lamour. rom the Bahamas. 
Eight sevenths natural size. 
H. Harvey many of the specimens upon which the Nereis Boreali- 
Americana was based. The Pike collection consisted of a few 
more than 3,000 specimens. Colonel Pike was United States 
Consul at Oporto, Portugal, for about ten years, and later, for an 
