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cays. His collections were sent to the Botanical Garden, Paris. (See C. 

 S. Sargent, "Journal of Andre Michaux" in Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. 26. 

 1888.) 



1790? Dr. J. W. Crudy collected in the Bahamas "before 1810," and his col- 

 lections are in the herbarium of the Botanical Museum at Munich, accord-, 

 ing to Urban ('Symb. Ant. 3: 33). A more recent and extended account 

 of Crudy and his West Indian collections, by Solereder (Symb. Ant. 7: 

 145-150), makes no mention of the Bahamas; from this account it seems 

 clear that Crudy had not collected in the Bahamas prior to 17-89, and that 

 he died in or before 1793. 



1802. J. Fraser, of Chelsea, London, after collecting in the southern United 

 States and Cuba, spent some time in the field at Nassau, New Providence. 

 The extent of his collections there is not known to us. The plants are de- 

 posited, with his personal herbarium', in the Linnean Society, London. 



1810? Jean Baptiste Ricord-Madiana, a noted author and naturalist, went to 

 the West Indies, from New York, in 1810 (?) and there traveled and 

 practised medicine extensively among the Windward Islands. How large 

 a series of plants he collected, the exact years (1810-25?), and where his 

 material was deposited are, at this writing, unknown to us. A very few 

 sheets have been seen in the herbaria of Harvard University and of the 

 New York Botanical Garden; these are labeled simply "Turks Island 

 Madiana. ' ' 



1830-42. Swainson (whose identity is not certain: not William Swainson the 

 Zoologist) collected in the Bahamas between 1830 and 1842. The exact 

 locality of his field work and the extent of his collections, are not known, 

 though Mr. Brace judges, from frequent local inquiries, that his plants were 

 collected, in a large part at least, on Long Island. Grisebach, who chron- 

 icles the material in his Flora of the British West Indies, mentions 

 specifically less than 200 species. His plants were turned over to Hooker 

 and are now in herb. Kew, London. 



1857-8, Dr. Wm. F. Daniell collected in the Bahamas in 1857-8. The extent of 

 his collections is not definitely known. The specimens are in the herbarium 

 of the British Museum. 



1858. J. A. Hjalmarson, of Stockholm, on his return voyage from concholog- 

 ical collecting in Hayti, stopped off at Grand Turk Island in 1858. Here 

 he spent a fortnight in field work. The extent of his botanical collection 

 is not definitely known. His specimens are to be found in the herbaria at 

 Kew, Gottingen and Berlin. 



1859. William Cooper visited New Providence in 1859 for the purpose of 

 making dredgings for zoological material. While there he collected, in 

 the neighborhood of Nassau, about 100 plants for his friend, Dr. John 

 Torrey. The prime set of these plants is now in the herbarium of the New 

 York Botanical Garden. (See Bull. Torrey Club 17: 187.) 



1865. Dr. Anna H. Searing, of Rochester, N. Y., collected to some extent on 

 New Providence in 1865. The number of specimens, and present location 

 of her collection we have not been able to positively determine, though the 



