JOURNAL 
The New York Botanical Garden 
Vou. 1X. —_ March, 1908. No. 99. 
REPORT ON THE BOTANICAL EXPLORATION OF 
“THE BAHAMA AND CAICOS ISLANDS. 
Dr. N. L. Britton, DirectTor-1n-CHier. 
Sir: We beg to present herewith a brief report on our 
recent expedition to the eastern and southeastern islands of 
the Bahamian archipelago and to the Caicos Islands, which are 
really a part of the Bahamas geographically, though now for 
more than half a century associated politically with the Jamaican 
government, The main object of the visit was to secure herba- 
rium and museum specimens, illustrating both the land and 
marine flora, for the New York Botanical Garden and the Field 
Museum of Natural History of Chicago, the latter institution 
having shared the expense of this and several previous expedi- 
tions to the Bahamas. In fact, the present expedition was the 
seventh that has been sent to the Bahamas since the winter of 
1904, either by the New York Botanical Garden alone or by the 
Garden in codperation with the Field Museum, and, in addition, 
much collecting for these two institutions has been done on vari- 
ous islands of the group by Mr. L. J. K. Brace, a botanist resi- 
dent in Nassau. On this, as on previous visits, considerable 
attention was given to securing living plants of scientific and 
economic interest for the conservatories of the Gar 
We left New York on the Ward Line steamer “ City of Wash- 
ington” on Friday, November 15, 1907, and reached Nassau, 
New Providence, on the morning of the nineteenth. Accom- 
panied by Mr. Lewis Brace of Nassau, we sailed eastward the 
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