JOURNAL 

 The New York Botanical Garden 



REPORT ON THE CONTINUATION OF THE BOTAN- 

 ICAL EXPLORATION OF THE BAHAMA 

 ISLANDS. 

 To the Scientific Directors. 



Gentlemen : Pursuant to your authorization I continued botan- 

 ical exploration in the Bahama Islands during parts of February 

 and March of this year, being absent from the Garden for this 

 purpose from February 1 1 to March 29. I was accompanied by 

 Dr. C. F. Millspaugh, curator of botany in the Field Museum of 

 Natural History in Chicago, who has been codperating with me 

 in previous work in this field, the expenses of several expeditions 

 and the museum and herbarium specimens obtained having been 

 divided by the two cooperating institutions. I was also accom- 

 panied by Mrs. Britton, who rendered much assistance in col- 

 lecting and preparing specimens, and at Nassau the expedition 

 was joined by Mr. L. J. K. Brace, a botanist resident there, who 

 had previously done much collecting in various parts of the 

 archipelago in the interests of this investigation, his remunera- 

 tion and collections being also divided between the Garden and 

 the Field Museum. 



Dr. Millspaugh, accompanied by Mrs. Millspaugh, proceeded 

 to Nassau by steamer from New York, while Mrs. Britton and I 

 went by way of Florida ; this course permitted me to revisit the 

 Subtropical Laboratory of the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture at Miami, Florida, now in charge of Dr. Ernst A. Bessey, 

 the base which has been used by the Garden's several exploring 



