aigae Collecting in t^e f atnauan 

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Josephine E. Tilden 



After spending several summers in 

 work on the coasts of Washington and 

 Vancouver Island, in which region the 

 algal flora is, for the most part, arctic 

 in character, it seemed that a study of 

 tropical marine and fresh water vegeta- 

 tion would be beneficial. Previously 

 no special collecting of this sort had 

 been done in Hawaii, so that the dis- 

 covery of interesting, rare and new 

 forms might be expected. Accord- 

 ingly, a trip to this group of islands 

 was planned. 



The party, consisting of my mother, 

 myself and Miss Caroline M. Crosby, 

 left Minneapolis on April 30, 1900, 

 arriving four days later at Vancouver, 



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