1898] ZOOLOGICAL JAMAICA 171 
species. Mr C. B. Taylor has collected and studied birds in all 
parts of the island, and is beyond question the best informed man 
on the island in questions of ornithology, For the past nine years 
natural science in Jamaica has enjoyed the patronage and support 
in countless ways of His Excellency Sir Henry Blake, the Governor 
of the island, and his estimable wife. Lady Blake has painted from 
life the caterpillars, chrysalids and adults of many of the native 
Lepidoptera, and her collection of over 100 water-colours of this 
order are a treat to the artist as well as to the entomologist. She 
has also painted many of the beautifully coloured fish which abound 
in the Caribbean Sea, and she has contributed to scientific journals 
in America and England, articles on the “ Aborigines of the West 
Indies” and kindred topics. But the scientific work in Jamaica 
naturally centres around the Jamaica Institute at Kingston, <A 
handsome building, erected only a few years ago, houses a very good 
collection of the principal animals of the island, some of the 
specimens being of considerable value. At the rear of this building 
is a small zoological garden, which contains specimens of many of 
the most interesting native birds, mammals, and reptiles. There is 
at the Institute a very good library which is of great assistance to 
a working zoologist. A specialty is made of books on Jamaica. 
The Board of Governors of the Institute show every courtesy to 
visiting zoologists, and are ably seconded by the present curator of 
the Museum, Mr J. E. Duerden, a Dublin University man, himself 
a trained zoologist, whose work on the Actinaria of the island is 
already attracting attention. An excellent beginning has been 
made towards interesting the people in the natural history of their 
island and in making the museum the repository of a complete 
collection of the native fauna. In both of these aims the Institute 
deserves and ought to receive the assistance of every scientific 
visitor to the island. HUBERT LYMAN CLARK, 
AMHERST CoLLEGE, Mass., U.S.A. : 
