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where they remained for over six months, collecting animals and plants on New 

 Providence and Andros. Dr. Northrop died soon after his return to the United 

 States, but his wife, with the aid of a number of specialists, published a list of 

 the plants which they had collected. This publication is a valuable contribu- 

 tion to our knowledge of the Bahama flora. ^ 



During the winter of 1890-91, Dr. A. S. Hitchcock, with a party of 

 naturalists, made a tropical tour including the islands of Jamaica, Grand 

 Cayman and the following of the Bahama group : New Providence, Eleuthera, 

 Cat, Watlings, Crooked, Fortune and Inagua Islands. The plants that he 

 collected on this expedition were published in the IV and IX Annual Reports 

 of the Missouri Botanical Garden. This report includes 380 plants from 

 the Bahama Islands, among which were several new species.* 



In 1895, Mrs. G. A. Hall, at present a resident of St. Augustine, Florida, 

 visited New Providence and Green Turtle Cay, collecting algge. She sent a 

 number of species to Agardb, who reported on them in several of his papers. 



The activity in botanical exploration in the Bahamas which marked the 

 closing years of tlie last century has continued over into this. Dr. John W. 

 Harshberger, at present instructor of botany in the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, while traveling in the West Indies, stopped for a few hours during 

 July, 1901, at Matthewtown, Great Inagua, and collected some plants.' 



During the winter of the next year, Mrs. Amelia C. Anthony spent some 

 time on New Providence and collected a number of ferns, a list of which she 

 published later.'" A. H. Curtiss, a resident of Florida, visited the island of 

 New Providence in 1903 and made a collection of plants which are now in the 

 herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden. During June and July of this 

 same year, the Bahama Expedition of the Geographical Society of Baltimore 

 was making its cruise of the Bahamas and collected material for this present 

 volume. 



Since the return of the Bahama Expedition, Drs. N. L. Britton, C. F. 

 Millspaugh and M. A. Howe have collected extensively in the Bahama Islands. 



' Flora of New Providence and Andros, with an Enumeration of the Plants 

 Collected by John I. Northrop and Alice R. Northrop, in 1890. Mem. Tor. Bot. Club, 

 Vol. XII, 1902, pp. 1-98, pis. 1-19. 



^ Crytogams Collected in the Bahamas, Jamaica and Grand Cayman. Rept. Bot. 

 Garden, Vol. IX, 1898, pp. 111-20; also Plants of the Bahamas, Jamaica and Grand 

 Cayman. Fourth An. Rept. Bot. Garden, 1893, pp. 47-179. 



"Notes on the Strand Flora of Great Inagua, Haiti and Jamaica. Torreya, 

 Vol. Ill, 1903, pp. 67-70. 



"•Fern Hunting in Nassau. Fern Bull., Vol. X, 1902, pp. 6-5-68. 



