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Leaving Dr. Shafer to make supplementary collections on 
Tortola, Mr. Fishlock and I started on February 18 on the mail 
schooner ‘‘Lady Constance” for a five days’ cruise farther to 
windward, the “West Indian” standing by; of how the Danish 
sloop emcne outsailed the mail boat, eae us to transfer 
to the foreign sloop off Virgin Gorda at three o’clock the next 
pea kaa is no ead to narrate, but it will hey go down 
n history of Virgin Island s s. Our goal, 
the soot fe ate island Anagada, ae of all the 
Aaa to windward, was thus reached helo midday on Feb- 
ruary 
nem physiographically and geologically, is totally dif- 
ferent from all other islands of the archipelago; it is an essentially 
level coral-limestone and limestone sand cay, at no point over 
30 feet in altitude above the ocean. Its native flora contains 
many species not known to occur on the other Virgin Islands, 
and, as a whole, it is strikingly Bahamian in relationship, 
paralleling its Leia structure. We spent two most interest- 
ing days her collected specimens of 123 species, but we 
le arly a areas. A complete botanical survey made 
by means of visits of ten days’ or two weeks’ duration at intervals 
of three months would reveal most of the species, and would be 
notable contribution to geographic botany; the flora is highly 
specialized, and very few specimens from Anagada are preserved 
in any museum or herbarium. Two kinds of ae exist wild, 
whose botanical affinities are as yet unknown, 
neither flowers nor fruit of them have been erly ee 
palmerio aie the other a thatch- fe ee T, ie. 
The Indian” raced across the Anagada Channel under 
the aie moon a February 20, and the next day was given to 
study and collection on Virgin Gorda, an island also hemmed 
little known. Our time being limited, most of it was taken up 
at ae elevations in the vicinity of the Valley eres 
among the great masses of granitic rocks which orm a 
striking and uaa physiographic feature; cleavage ie erosion 
