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them with specimens secured during our own botanical explora- 
tion of these islands, some of which I took with me, for this pur- 
pose ; also to study certain plants and specimens from the United 
States and more particularly certain of our trees grown at Kew; 
to consult some old and rare books not contained in our Library ; 
and to inspect and study portions of the out-of-door collections 
and those of greenhouse plants at Kew. The time available for 
these studies was from August 24 until September 10 inclusive. 
Through the aid and cooperation of the officers of the Kew 
Herbarium and Library, and of the Botanical Departrnent of the 
British Museum I was enabled to see very nearly all the speci- 
mens and books desired and I am grateful to them for many 
favors and for much valuable information. Inasmuch as I had 
accumulated memoranda on more than three hundred different 
plants and books to be examined, the time which I had allowed 
myself for this yeas would have been insufficient, except for 
this kind pee 
Studies of the ae of the Bahama Islands, prosecuted during 
several years in cooperation with Dr. C. F. Millspaugh, Curator 
of Botany in the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 
may now be completed for publication; I am expecting the 
pleasure of Dr. cana ane presence here in November for this 
purpose. An account of the wild plants of Bermuda, rendered 
more complete by recent ae made there by Mr. Steward- 
son Brown, Curator of Botany at the ee of Natural 
Science of Philadelphia, and by Miss Delia W. Marble, may 
Iso 
y: 
The older collections at Kew and at the British Museum of 
Natural History threw much light upon the studies of flowering 
plants of the Jamaica Flora, carried on in codperation with Mr. 
William Flarris, Superintendent of Public Gardens and Planta- 
tions of that Island, and I have now been able to study specimens 
or plants of all but about 120 species out of a total flora of over 
2,700 species recorded to grow naturally in Jamaica; some of 
this residuum is represented by specimens contained only in 
museums of the continent of Europe; some is represented by 
published records not substantiated by specimens ; while some is 
