ition of West Indian species, the duplicates bein 

 for exchanges ; some valuable plants from the garden 

 and at Cinchona were also obtained. 



tefully t 



ndered t 



His 



icy Sir 



of Jamaica, to the Hor 

 of Public Gardens and Plantations, and 

 i, Superintendent of Public Gardens and 

 Respectfully submitted, 

 N. L. Britton, 



Director-in- Chief. 



Gentlemen : — It is now just 



ten years since serious agitation 



was first aroused among Ameri 

 Botanical Laboratory. Coram 

 Botanical Gazette published a s 



an botanists relative to a tropica 

 ncing in November, 1896, the 

 ries of editorials on the subject* 



reference to such an establishm 



to consider Jamaica with specia 

 ent, two of the members of the 



commission actually visiting the 

 ious reasons the interest waned, 



island early in 1897. For var- 

 and no further steps were taken 



until, in response to the sugge 



tion of the present writer, f the 



t C/ JournIl N. Y.'bot.Ga'rd 9 4 : 



1897. 



