PREFATORY NOTICE. 
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Det set ig ona Bulletin, I have first to thank the various 
or kindly forwarding to me the material, and then the 
ty mention th 
ae e names of Professors Askenasy, Meebius, 
stedt, Schmidle, and Borge. In fact, the main part of the present 
my fri 
Y oka .d. Dyram, who, it will be remembered, rendered me 
Bulletins Nos, V when publishing my two er Freshwater Alg@ 
: 7 -NO8. Vi. an The present Botany Bulletin, XV., or the 
To gi : 
hid ox ah pa idea of the vast number of these plants in Queens- 
, [may mention that upon a specimen 0 Chara australis, 
On “ ite 
a y es, 1 Xanthidium, 2 Desmidium, 1 Penium, 3 Staura- 
q 1 Kirchneri ‘he } Bulbochete, 1 Coleochete, 
3 iella—in all, 43 kinds, including several new forms. 
— wyself eaturt to workers like 
a eta “ap persons in this colony of ours, where the one object of 
be to become rich, who are willing to devote some portion 
of their time t ’ re W 
termed, Io o collect for determination these, W ich ften 
-— microse wer forms of vegetati ere the collectors possess 
Obj 0 tiful 
jects i : 
Comes a would be impossible to find; and W 
minute fae and asks the oft-put question, “ What's the good of these 
Words rms of plant life?” he can be answered by usin 
: Has God, thou fool ! worked solely for thy good, 
EW cannot hy joys, thy pastime, thy attire, thy food? 
- they Dei say why these things were created, but may be sure that 
Meat i in the general arrangement of 
Jead the mind from 
i te up to Nature’s God they have not been made in — os 
January, 1898, 
