84 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 
‘““A small schooner, a regulation ‘sponger’ was secured for the work 
on the reef, the owner, Mr. J. Kemp, a local collector and dealer in corals, 
serving as captain, and a week after leaving New York we sailed from 
Nassau for Andros Island. Reaching Mangrove Cay on the follow- 
ing evening, we were warmly received by Rev. Mr. F. B. Matthews, 
Rector of All Saints, who has repeatedly shown himself an active and 
valuable friend of the Museum. On the present occasion he not only 
offered his study and -magistrate’s court to the expedition for use as a 
MADREPORE CORAL. 
A large specimen on the beach at Staniard Rock, Andros, after being floated 
from the place where it was found. 
laboratory, but, since he was on the point of leaving for a trip to Europe, 
he put the rectory as well at our disposal. Headquarters were thus. 
established within a few miles of the point where we desired to work, 
an arrangement which was very economical of time. 
“The reef which stretches along the whole hundred miles of the 
eastern coast of Andros is particularly luxuriant in development at points. 
near the channels or ‘bights’ which divide the island into three main 
portions. At Little Golding Cay off Middle Bight, for example, a. 
