188 VEGETATION 



No more botanical research was attempted in the Islands until Dr. 

 Anna H. Searing, of Eoehester, New York, collected in the Bahamas in 1885. 

 Her plants are included in the list of Gardner, Brace and Dolley.' In June 

 of the next year, Dr. F. H. Herrick visited Abaco with a party from the 

 Johns Hopkins University, where he made collections of plants that are now 

 divided between Yale University and Adelbert College, Ohio/ During this 

 same year (1886) John Gardner, an Englishman, who was occupying the 

 position of scientific adviser to the Board of Agriculture of the Bahamas, 

 identified a number of Bahama plants and added to Brace's list.^ He did not, 

 however, make a collection. 



For the next two years Baron von H. F. A. Eggers,' was busy collecting 

 plants in the Bahamas. He first visited America as an officer in the Danish 

 army. Later he became interested in natural history, and after retiring from 

 the army in 1885, he remained for a number of years in the West Indies, 

 where he made explorations and collected a large number of plants. In Jul}', 

 1887, he visited Grand Turk and collected some interesting plants. Later lie 

 was sent by the British Association to investigate the Bahama flora. Accord- 

 ingly, in February and March, 1888, he visited New Providence, Acklin, For- 

 tune and Long Islands, where he collected and made notes on the general 

 vegetation. His collections from the Bahamas include about 314 species (in 

 addition to 15 numbers from Grand Turk). They have now been widely 

 scattered, some being at Kew and most of the others with Krug and Urban in 

 Berlin. A number of Eggers's plants have recently been worked up by Urban," 

 who found many new species among them. 



During this same year Dr. Charles Sumner Dolley collected in the Bahama 

 Islands and added to the list of Brace and Gardner."^ His collections are in the 

 herbarium of the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. L. J. Brace, a resident of 

 Nassau, has for years been collecting and preserving Bahama plants. Some 

 time ago he started a list of the flora which was added to and published by 

 Gardner and Dolley.' Brace's numbers are now at Kew. During the next 

 year Dr. J. I. Northrop and his wife, Alice Northrop, visited the Bahamas, 



■■' Provisional List of the Plants of the Bahama Islands. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Phil., 1889, pp. 349-407. 



■* Notes on the Flora of Abaco and Adjoining Islands. Johns Hopkins Univ. 

 Cir., Vol. VI, 1886, pp. 46-47; also Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1889, pp. 349-407. 



■'Flora of the Bahamas. Nature, 1888, pp. 565-566; also Die Bahama-Inseln. 

 Globus, Braunschweig, Vol. LXII, 1892, pp. 209-214. 



" Symbolae Antillanae sen Fundamenta Florae Indae Occidentalis. Berlin. 



