The Plant World 



A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF POPULAR BOTANY 



Official Organ of 

 The Wild Flower Preservation Society 



OF America 



Vol. VI FEBRUARY, 1903 No. 2 



Extracts from the Note-Book of a Nat- 

 uralist on the Island of Guam.— III.* 



By William E. Safford. 



August 16, 1899. — Frequent showers throughout the day. Began to 

 prepare my garden for planting the seed given me by Mr. Haughs and 

 other friends in Honolulu. Put the blue water-lily seed in a bowl of 

 water. Ground damp ; surface covered in many places in the plaza by a 

 green gelatinous lichen or alga ; examined some of the archives in the 

 palace and found them damp and soggy, paper eaten in places by term- 

 ites and edges mildewed, but ink good and black ; the writing for the 

 most part beautiful ; earliest record observed, the trial of a governor for 

 having given supplies, in 1710, to an Knglish corsair, who was "not 

 only an enemy of Spain, but a heretic as well, and a subject of the Protes- 

 tant Queen Anna." Some of the letter-books of the Spanish governors 

 very interesting, revealing the Spanish colonial policy and the various 

 experiments of the governors in trying to make the Marianne Islands 

 self-supporting. These letter-books began after the independence of 

 Spanish America, when the government of the islands was transferred 

 from Mexico to Manila. Fitted a room in the second story of the palace 

 for my office. 



The governor this day issued two orders, the first prohibiting the sale 

 or issuing of intoxicating spirituous liquors in this island to any person 



* Continued from October, 1902, issue. Begun in September, 1902. 



