The Plant World 



A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF POPULAR BOTANY 



Official Organ of 

 The Wild Flower Preservation Society 



OF America 



Vol. VII SEPTEMBER, 1904 No. 9 



Extracts from the Note-Book of a Nat- 

 uralist on the Island of Guam.— XXII.* 



By William E. Safford. 



Friday, February 9 . — With General Wheeler and Mr. Garrett to make 

 a tour around the southern end of the island, visiting Asan, Agat, Umata 

 (Humdtag), and lualahan. No horse was available for Mr. Bengough, 

 so he remained at Agafia, amusing himself in looking over my books, two 

 hundred of which were purchased by me in Samoa from the library of 

 Robert Louis Stevenson. Many of the latter have marginal markings 

 and some have annotations and criticisms. One of the most interesting 

 of all is Stevenson's father's Bible, which is interleaved and has copious 

 annotations throughout the entire New Testament. Another is a finely- 

 bound copy of Madame de Stael's " Delphine," which was presented to 

 Stevenson's mother as a prize for excellence in French. It bears the in- 

 scription ''Prix de frau^ais decerne h Mile. Margaret Isabella Balfour. — 

 A. F. Gtiillerez, Fdivibourg, 19 Jidllet, 1844.''^ Another is Jamieson's 

 " Dictionary of the Scottish Language," which bears the name of Lewis 

 Balfour, Stevenson's maternal grandfather, on the fly-leaf of each of 

 the two volumes, followed by the inscription, " presented by Mrs. Brown 

 Somervill, 26 June, 1820." With this standard work at hand Stevenson 

 could have no fear of his Scottish idioms or vocabulary. Among the books 

 which had belonged to his father's father is the "History of Fife and 

 Kinross," by Robert Sibbald, with "Robert Stevenson" written in ink 



* Continued from the August issue. Begun in September, 1902. 



