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A visit to Dominica brought a chance to meet Mr. 

 Joseph Jones, long the curator of the lovely botanic gar- 

 den, and this meeting engendered a pleasant correspond- 

 ence which lasted for years. On our visit to Grenada, I 

 fell in with Father Gates, a descendant of General Gates 

 of Boston Revolutionary fame, a naturalist and an artist 

 of great talent. When he died years later I received a large 

 album full of colored drawings of insects, plants, and 

 other creatures, all of exquisite beauty, with a card saying 

 **Sent at the request of the Rev. Sebastian Gates, O.P." 

 I was touched by his thinking of me in this way although I 

 knew I had made him very happy by fencing his little 

 house and chapel at Piedmontaine to keep stray goats out 

 of his garden. These exquisite sketches may easily serve to 

 illustrate future publications of the Museum describing 

 material from this enchanting isle. 



Our visit to Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, was a great event, 

 for I met then for the first time Fred Urich, with whom I 

 had corresponded for years. Someone had just brought 

 him a living tiny frog of the genus Amphodus, hitherto 

 unknown from Trinidad, a lovely little golden-yellow 

 creature, tiny but with eyes like jewels. This is found in 

 bromeHaceous plants in the highest lands of the island, and 

 he generously gave it to me to take back to Cambridge. 

 He was always doing things of this sort. I visited him 

 again several years later in his home outside Port-of-Spain, 

 and was saddened later on when the news came of his 

 death. 



Herbert Stabler, an old friend, was living in Caracas, 

 the representative of the Mellon oil interests. He asked me 

 to stay at his house while some minor repairs were being 



