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Britton, I spent the month of March and part of April in 
eastern and central Cuba. Our representation of the 
Cuban flora, while not yet complete, is now greater than that 
of any other institution. The difficult region of the high 
Sierra Maestra, west of Santiago, still remains unexplored. 
It is hoped that at some time a party may be organized to 
spend several months in those high mountains, which are 
known to contain many rare species, and doubtless contain 
many others as yet unknown to science. During parts of 
November and December, Dr. John K. Small, Head Curator 
of the Museums, accompanied Professor Hugo de Vries on a 
collecting trip through southern Florida, in continuation 
of his investigations of the flora of that region. Three 
weeks in late August and early September and two weeks in 
December were given by me to studies in Bermuda, ac- 
companied on the first trip by Mr. Stewardson Brown, Cur- 
ator of Botany at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural 
Sciences, and by Mrs. Britton, and on the December trip 
by Mr. Stewardson Brown, and by Dr. Seaver of our staff. 
This exploration work has been aided by contributions of 
money to the special fund for educational and scientific 
purposes applied to exploration, as follows: 
W. K. Vanderbilt... 0.0... ee eee $500 
J. Pierpont Morgan. ........ 0.0.0. ..e 0c eee eee 500 
N.L. Britton... 0.0.0.0 00020 cece cece eee 300 
FS. Harkness; p22 es ecnitea deal ete ere 250 
George F. Baker... 0.0.0.0 0. cece eee eee 200 
Edward D, Adams... .......... 0.02 e renee ees 200 
George W. Perkins. ........0..0-. 000 cn eee teens 200 
H.C. Fahnestock.. 0.0.0.0... 00s cee eee eee 200 
Cleveland H. Dodge. .............. 00.2 c eee eee 100 
John E. Parsons... 0.0.0... ccc eee cee eee ees 100 
Francis Lynde Stetson...........---02--0ee eae 100 
Edgar L. Marston... ..........22--000- ee 100 
Walter Jennings... 2.22.0... ee eee ee eee 100 
William J. Matheson.. ...............000005 . 100 
