NO. 8 



S.MITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I913 



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a fly or small spoon, and occasionally contri1)Ute to the camper's 

 breakfast. 



A study of the tish fauna of the basin bears out the conclusions of 

 geologists regarding its long isolation. Nearly all of the species are 

 distinct from those of neii^hborinj^- systems, and some belong to 

 gnuips of very restricted distrilnition. An account of the fishes, 

 their habits and distribution will appear in a future bulletin of the 

 Bureau of Fisheries. 



CACTUSES AND DESERT PLANTS FROM THE WEST INDFES 

 AND SOUTHWESTERN UNFFED STATES 



Dr. J. N. Rose, associate in botany, U. S. National Museum (at 

 present connected with the Carnegie Institution of Washington 



Fig. 30. — St. John's Harbour, British West Indies. The high point on the 

 right is Rat Island, used as tlie Government Leper Asylum. Part of the town 

 of St. John's is shown, the seat of government of the Leeward Islands under 

 British c<intr()l. Phiitograph hy Russell. 



in the preparation of a monograph of the Cactaceae of America), 

 accompanied by Messrs. William R. Fitch and Paul G. Russell, spent 

 over ten weeks in travel and field-work in the West Indies in the 

 spring of 1913. As this was an unusual opportunity to obtain ver\- 

 valuable material needed for the collections of the National Museum 

 and for tise in makini"' exchanges, the Museum detailed .Mr. Russell 



