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species. Mr C. B. Taylor has collected and studied birds in all 

 parts of the island, and is beyond question the best informed man 

 on the island in questions of ornithology. For the past nine years 

 natural science in Jamaica has enjoyed the patronage and support 

 in countless ways of His Excellency Sir Henry Blake, the Governor 

 of the island, and his estimable wife. Lady Blake has painted from 

 life the caterpillars, chrysalids and adults of many of the native 

 Lepidoptera, and her collection of over 100 water-colours of this 

 order are a treat to the artist as well as to the entomologist. She 

 has also painted many of the beautifully coloured fish which abound 

 in the Caribbean Sea, and she has contributed to scientific journals 

 in America and England, articles on the " Aborigines of the West 

 Indies " and kindred topics. But the scientific work in Jamaica 

 naturally centres around the Jamaica Institute at Kingston. A 

 handsome building, erected only a few years ago, houses a very good 

 collection of the principal animals of the island, some of the 

 specimens being of considerable value. At the rear of this building 

 is a small zoological garden, which contains specimens of many of 

 the most interesting native birds, mammals, and reptiles. There is 

 at the Institute a very good library which is of great assistance to 

 a working zoologist. A specialty is made of books on Jamaica. 

 The Board of Governors of the Institute show every courtesy to 

 visiting zoologists, and are ably seconded by the present curator of 

 the Museum, Mr J. E. Duerden, a Dublin University man, himself 

 a trained zoologist, whose work on the Actinaria of the island is 

 already attracting attention. An excellent beginning has been 

 made towards interesting the people in the natural history of their 

 island and in making the museum the repository of a complete 

 collection of the native fauna. In both of these aims the Institute 

 deserves and ought to receive the assistance of every scientific 

 visitor to the island. Hubert Lyman Clark. 



Amherst College, Mass., U.S.A. 



