JOURNAL 

 The New York Botanical Garden 



March. 1907. 



Dr. N. L. Britton, Director-in-Chief. 



Dear Sir: Pursuant to your instructions, I spent six weeks 

 during December, 1906, and January, 1907, on the island of 

 Jamaica in making collections and field studies of marine algae, 

 and I beg to offer at this time a brief and informal report on the 

 expedition. I left New York December 9 on the Prim August 

 Wilhelm of the Hamburg-American line and reached Kingston 

 the evening of December 14. Through the kind intercession of 

 Mr. William Harris, the superintendent of Public Gardens and 

 Plantations of Jamaica, Mr. David Henderson, one of the leading 

 merchants of the island, very generously placed at my service a 

 workroom in an office-building in a lumber-yard near the water- 

 front of Kingston at the foot of East Street. The first day after 

 the unpacking and settling down was spent in company with 

 Professor Charles Wright Dodge of the University of Roches- 

 ter in getting acquainted with some of the peculiarities of Kings- 

 ton Harbor, the " Palisadoes," and the outlying islands or 

 " cays," under the able tutelage of a resident naturalist, Mr. P- 

 W. Jarvis of the Colonial Bank. In conditions like those found 

 in Kingston Harbor and vicinity, very little in the way of marine 

 collecting is possible without using a boat, so I engaged by the 

 week the services of two negro boatmen, with their dug-out 

 canoe *, in which sails could be raised when the breezes favored. 



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