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in progress are of course unfinished, but the Committee are of opinion 
that the results are sufficiently encouraging to justify them in asking the 
Association to renew the grant for another year. 
Third Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor FLowmr 
(Chairman), Mr. D. Morris (Secretary), Mr. Carrorurs, Dr. 
Scuater, Mr. Tuiserron-Dyzr, Dr. Saarp, Mr. F. Du Cane Gop- 
MAN, Professor Newton, Dr. Ginruer, and Colonel Frmpen, 
appointed for the purpose of reporting on the present state of 
our knowledge of the Zoology and Botany of the West India 
Islands, and taking steps to investigate ascertained deficiencies 
in the Fauna and Flora. 
Tis Committee was appointed in 1887, and reappointed in 1888 and 
- 1889. 
During the past year chief attention has been directed to the explora- 
tion of the island of St. Vincent, and two collectors have been maintained 
in that island at the expense of Mr. F. Du Cane Godman, who has kindly 
assisted the Committee in this manner in order that the funds at its 
disposal may be chiefly applied to the remuneration of contributors, to 
whom would be referred the large collections in zoology already amount- 
ing in insecta alone to about 3,000 species. The plants have been 
determined at the Herbarium of the Royal Gardens, Kew, and are nearly 
completed to date. A separate report on the collections in zoology and 
botany is given below. 
It is proposed by the Committee to accept the services of Mr. R. V. 
Sherring, F.L.S., to make collections in botany in the island of Grenada 
during the coming winter. Mr. Sherring is well acquainted with the 
West Indies, and has already made collections there and added several 
new species of ferns to the flora of Jamaica. 
Zoology. 
Since the last report of the Committee three collections have been 
received from Mr. H. H. Smith, the collector sent by Mr. Godman to the 
island of St. Vincent. These collections include a complete set of the 
birds already known to inhabit the island, and a few additional species ; 
a small number of reptiles and crustaceans ; a large series of spiders ; and 
a great many insecta; these last amounting, it is thought, to about 3,000 
species. 
4 In 1889 Colonel Feilden paid a visit to the island of Dominica for the 
purpose of ascertaining whether the Diablotin (@strelata hesitata) has 
become extinct there, as has been reported by Ober. The account of his 
expedition that Colonel Feilden has published leaves little doubt that this 
is the case. 
Although Mr. Smith has now been occupied about a year and a half 
in the exploration of the island of St. Vincent, Mr. Godman has decided, 
with the concurrence of the Committee, that he shall still continue there, 
as itis not yet clear that the more inaccessible portions of the island 
have been sufficiently examined. 
