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at Saona and we started for Romana. All this country could 
repay another visit during the early summer months of April, 
May and June. We returned to Consuelo on December 13. 
During the trip to the eastern end of the region, our head- 
quarters were established at La Romana, and it is to the kindness 
r. an Kampen that this excursion was so successful. 
His oe” of the country and hearty codperation were in- 
valuable. 
It had been previously planned to go from Consuelo to Hato 
Mayor and explore the savannah country which lies all round 
this place, but unforeseen events made this trip impracticable and 
it was abandoned. Some more collecting about the estate and 
the packing and drying of the specimens consumed the time until 
December tg, when we sailed from San Pedro de Macoris to 
Santo Domingo City. Four days were spent in and around this 
historic city, which is the oldest permanent settlement in the New 
World. An attempt to trace an herbarium of Santo Domingo 
plants said to be in the city was unsuccessful, and no one inter- 
ested in the flora of the island could be found. Leaving Santo 
Domingo City on December 23, we arrived in New York, 
January 2, Ig10. 
Asa result of the expedition about 1,700 specimens for the 
herbarium, and seventy-five live plants for the conservatories have 
been secured. In addition much information about the country 
and its possibilities has been accumulated, which should serve 
as a basis for future explorations in Santo Domingo. 
At your suggestion the common West Indian littoral and 
roadside plants have been for the most part ignored. 
Respectfully submitted, 
Norman TAYLor, 
Assistant Curator. 
THE FOSSIL FLORA OF NEW YORK AND VICINITY. 
In the course of a recent rearrangement of the fossil plant col- 
lections in the museum it was decided to make a special feature 
of those from New York City and vicinity, particularly from the 
Amboy clays and the Cliffwood clay marls of New Jersey, and 
