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to various islands of the Bahama group by Mr. L. J. K. 
Brace, to eastern Cuba by Mr. Taylor, to Mexico by Dr. D. 
T. MacDougal and Dr. J. N. Rose, to Jamaica by Dr. Britton 
and your chairman, and to tropical Florida by Dr. Small. 
All these expeditions have resulted in bringing together a 
very extensive series of living and preserved plants, and 
adding materially to our knowledge of the relations of the 
floras of these regions. Added to these, two expeditions are 
now in progress, to Jamaica by Dr. Howe and to Montserrat 
by Dr. Shafer. The Board has also granted the Director 
leave to carry on a final expedition in the outlying islands of 
the Bahama group to commence in February, 1907, and at 
the December meeting has taken the following action rela- 
tive to future exploration: 
‘¢The following recommendations relative to the problem 
of exploration of the tropics are the result of past experience 
in the work accomplished : 
‘¢7, One more expedition to the Bahamas, added to the 
exploration now in progress by Mr. Brace, will place the 
flora of this group of islands in a practically complete condi- 
tion. Steps are already afoot to prepare for publication a 
descriptive flora of these islands. 
*¢2, Exploration of the island of Hispaniola (consisting of 
the two republics of Haiti and Santo Domingo) has not kept 
pace with that of the three other greater Antilles. It is im- 
portant for those studying the flora of the West Indies to 
have as uniformly complete collections from the principal 
areas as possible, in order to correlate their studies in geo- 
graphic distribution. Hispaniola is largely a great unknown, 
botanically speaking, and the principal accurate results ac- 
cessible to American botanists are the collections made by 
Mr. Nash and his associates during two expeditions to Haiti. 
It is very important that large collections be secured at as 
early a date as possible from this island, and we recommend 
the inauguration of a large expedition for this purpose. We 
would emphasize the word Jarge since the conditions of the 
country are such that it is practically poor economy to send 
