THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 
BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN 
RECORD 
Vout. I Brooklyn, N. Y., January, 1912 No. 1 
FOREWORD 
Tors BrookiyN Botanic GARDEN REcoRD, inaugurated with 
this number, will, until further notice, be issued quarterly. It is 
purely an administrative organ, and is not intended either as a 
scientific publication or as a newspaper, but, as its name indicates, 
to serve as a record of the development and progress of the Gar- 
den, and as a medium of communication between the Garden and 
its constituency. One of the numbers of each volume will con- 
tain the Annual Report of the Director of the Garden. 
REPORD OF 
A TRIP TO WESTERN CUBA IN THE FALL OF 1910 
To the Committee on Botanic Garden, 
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. 
GENTLEMEN : 
Having been granted by you leave of absence for a trip of 
botanical exploration in Cuba, I sailed from New York on the 
Ward Line Steamer, Havana, on August 20th. The other mem- 
bers of the party, sent out by the New York Botanical Garden, 
at Bronx Park, consisted of Dr. N. L. Britton, Director-in-Chief 
of that Garden, and Mrs. Britton. We reached Havana on the 
