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The arrangement of species must now be thought of. A few portfolios of limp cardboard with loose cloth back should include all the species of one genus, and more durable ones again receiving all the genera comprised in a Family, and finally these Families may be stowed away in any manner most convenient for ready access.

The study of Seaweeds has been deemed frivolous from the days of Horace and Virgil, but we are proud to be their champion, and hope that these brief pages may instil a taste for the "countless laughing gleams of deep seaweeds" into many who peruse them.