PREFACE 



U. S. Department of Agriculture, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, U. S. 

 Weather Bureau, and the U. S. Fish Commission for the loan of necessary 

 apparatus ; to the Government of the Bahama Islands for a generous appro- 

 priation to meet part of the expenses incurred in conducting the soil survey ; 

 to His Excellency, Sir Gilbert T. Carter, former Governor of the Bahama 

 Islands, for his personal support and interest in the work of the Expedition ; 

 to Mr. C. Tyldesley Sands of Nassau and Messrs. Penniman and Brown of 

 Baltimore for generous and personal services in connection with the soil survey ; 

 to Mr. H. M. Flagler for many courtesies ; to Mr. Bernard N. Baker, for the 

 gift of the glass-bottom boat; to the Notre Dame of Maryland; and to the 

 many friends of the Society who personally gave financial aid to the Expedi- 

 tion and who later, in a similar manner, encouraged the publication of this 

 volume. 



The U. S. Hydrographic office kindly furnished transfers from their 

 own stones for the base of the bathymetric map shown in Plate X. The 

 bases for the various soil maps (Plates XXYIII-XXXII) have been reen- 

 graved from Admiralty charts. The hurricane charts (Plates XVIII-XXIV) 

 have been revised and brought clown to date from similar charts previously 

 published by the U. S. Weather Bureau. Mr. A. H. Baldwin, the well-known 

 artist, accompanied the Expedition, and made the original colored sketches 

 from which the lithographs of fishes (Plates LII-LXI) have been reproduced. 

 The originals for the figures of mosquitoes (Plates XLYIII-LI) were also 

 drawn by Mr. Baldwin and kindly loaned to the Editor by Dr. L. 0. Howard. 

 Mr. J. B. Smith, State Entomologist of New Jersey, furnished the electrotype 

 for Figure 5, and the Maryland Weather Service, the originals for Plate XIV, 

 Fig. 1, and Plate XVI. Mr. George N. Saegmuller, of Washington, D. C., 

 kindly furnished the original for the figure of the tide-gauge (Plate XIV, 

 Fig. 2). The figures of fossils (Plates XI-XIII) are the work of Miss Frances 

 Wieser, of Washington, and Plates LXXVII, LXXVIII and LXXIX are the 

 work of Mr. Hermann Becker, of Baltimore. Messrs. Forrest Shreeve and 

 Albert Sommerwerck, of Baltimore, have aided in the clerical work of this 

 volume. 



