C50 EXPLOEATION AND COLLECTIONS. 



1890. Prof. J .T. Rothrock made, in the interests of the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, an expedition to the British West Indies in his 41-ton yawl 

 ' ' White Cap ' ' during the winter of 1890-91. On this expedition he col- 

 lected 4 days on New Providence ; 2 on Cat Island ; a part of one day on 

 Watling's; 2 days on Crooked Island; 2 on Fortune Island, and a day on 

 Great Inagua. His collecting was done independently from that of Prof. 

 Hitchcock, who accompanied him. The first set was deposited in the her- 

 barium of the University of Pennsylvania; the second, comprising 162 

 sheets, he has kindly placed in the herbarium of the Field Museum and the 

 third in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden. 



1890. Prof. Albert S. Hitchcock collected in the Bahamas in November and 

 December, 1890. The collections were largely made on New Providence, 

 Eleuthera, Cat, Watling's, Crooked, Fortune, and Inagua and form the 

 basis of his ' ' Plants collected in the Bahamas, ' ' etc. The material col- 

 lected was deposited in the herbarium of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 

 from which, through the kindness of the director, Dr. William Trelease, the 

 authors have been allowed to reassemble the sheets. The collection, em- 

 bracing about 600 sheets, is at this writing a loan to the Field Museum. 

 Through a later purchase of his ' ' Florida Herbarium ' ' the Field Museum 

 secured 133 duplicate sheets of the Bahama plants. 



1893. Miss Bertha Wilson accompanied the Bahamian Expedition from the 

 State University of Iowa in May and June, 1893, collecting principally 

 algae on Egg Island, Harbor Island, Eleuthera, New Providence, Cat Cay 

 and Water Cay. (Narrative of the Bahamian Expedition, Nutting.) On 

 leaving the university she took her collections with her in the anticipation 

 of determining the species. All trace of them has since been lost to the 

 botanists of the institution. Her land plants are said to have been but 

 scraps and to have been thrown away. 



1893^. G. F. Curtiss, of Schenectady, New York, an amateur collector of 

 ferns, spent the winter of 1893-4 on the islands. The extent of his col- 

 lecting (which was doubtless of ferns only) is unknown. Although his 

 private herbarium has lately come into the possession of the Field Museum 

 of Natural History it contains but one sheet from the Bahamas and that 

 from Andros. 



1900-2. Mrs. Emilia Royce (Crane) Anthony, of Gouverneur, N. Y., collected 

 the ferns of the neighborhood of Nassau, New Providence, in 1900 to 1902. 

 Her personal collections were destroyed in the great fire at Jacksonville, 

 Florida. Duplicates of her series were deposited in the private herbaria 

 of B. D. Gilbert, Clayville, N. Y. ; and W. N. Clute, Joliet, 111. 



1901. Dr. John W. Harshberger, while on his passage to Hayti, spent a por- 

 tion of July 1, 1901, in the vicinity of Matthewtown, Inagua, during the 

 call of his steamer at that port. He made a small collection which was 

 sent to Prof. Urban, for determination, and is now in the herbarium of the 

 Botanical Garden of Berlin. 



1903. Prof. F. S. Earle collected during one day only, on New Providence 

 (Nos. 1-79), while on his way to Cuba, in March, 1903. His plants, 



