LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Portrait of Dr. John I. Northrop . . . . . . Frontispiece 



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Ryswick ........... Facing 3 



The Bay at Nicol's Town " 6 



House at Nicol's Town ........ " 8 



At Conch Sound . " 14 



Fresh Creek " 19 



Cabbage Creek " 20 



Coming to Anchor off the Dames Place ..... " 22 



Goat Cay, Andros ......... " 32 



Ocean Hole, Nicol's Town " 34 



Spruce Cay, New Providence, showing Erosion .... '' 40 



Icterus northropi Alien . . . . . . . . '' 66 



Crustaceans . . . . . . . . . . . -97 



Crustaceans 98 



Actinians from the Bahama Islands ...... Facing 116 



Map of New Providence and Andros " 118 



Main Street in Nicol's Town ....... '' 122 



In the High Coppet near Deep Creek " 124 



Aletris bracteata ......... " 144 



Hymenocallis arenicola ........ " 146 



Vanilla articulata " 148 



Phoradendron northropice . . . . . . . " 150 



Pithecolobium bahamense . . . . . . . . " 155 



Cassia caribcea .......... " 156 



Linutn bahainense . . . . . . . . . " 159 



Erythroxylon reticulatum ........ " 160 



Crossopetalum coriaceum ... . . . . . . '' 165 



Reynosia northropiana ........ " 166 



Helicteres spiralis ......... " 167 



Xylosma ilicifolia . . . . . . . . . *' 169 



Terminalia spinosa ......... '< 172 



Metastelma barbata " 176 



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