(15) 
The guide-book, issued late last year, was placed on sale 
at the museum building and at the approach to the elevated 
railway station, together with selected photographs of special 
features, other publications of the Garden, and specially pre- 
pared postal cards. 
Exploration 
By means of a small appropriation from general funds and 
of special contributions for the purpose, botanical exploration 
and collecting has been prosecuted in the West Indies to the 
great advantage of the collections of living plants and of the 
museums and herbarium. 
Contributions credited to the special exploration fund were 
received as follows: 
D. O. Mills $1,500 
Field Museum of Natural History, advance 
on account of Exploration of the Bahamas...... 250 
Morris K. Jesup 100 
S. S. Palmer 100 
Samuel Sloan 100 
. Van Beuren 50 
Bradley Martin 50 
O. H. Kahn...... 5° 
John E. Parsons 50 
James Douglas 50 
Ws Bayard Cutting:......c:ssdstincieckeiiteie sees. 50 
James A. Scrymser 50 
James B. Ford 50 
George C. Thomas 25 
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John H. Bloodgood 10 
Dr. Marshall A. Howe, a Museum Curator, spent parts of 
December, 1906, and January, 1907, on the island of Jamaica 
making collections and field studies of marine algae, in con- 
tinuation of his previous investigations of these plants. The 
continuation of the exploration of the Bahama Islands was 
accomplished in coéperation with the Field Museum of Nat- 
ural History of Chicago, by Dr. C. F. Millspaugh, Curator 
