ch 27 at Miami, I was enabled to 

 laboratory of the United States Dep; 



ofAgri- 

 s and to 

 led New York 



on the afternoon of March 29. 



Our work in the Bahamas was aided in many ways by the resi- 

 dents, and our thanks are due and are gratefully tendered for 

 information and assistance to Hon. Herbert A. Brook, Registrar 

 of the Colony at Nassau ; to Rev. John P. Jackson of Rock 

 Sound, Eleuthera; to Andrew S. M. O'Brien, Esq., Resident 

 Justice ; to Rev. C. P. Shaw of the Bight Settlement, Cat Island ; 

 to Mr. Simeon Devoe, Assistant Resident Justice, at Port Howe, 

 Cat Island; to Mr. F. L. Christie of Conception Island; to Rev. 

 Marshall M. Cooper, and Resident Justice Rigby of Cockburn 

 Town, Watling's Island, and to R. G. Williams, Esq., of the 

 Harbor Estate, Watling's Island ; to Rev. C. B. T. Wilkinson, 

 M.A., Resident Justice, Gilbert Albury and Charles A. Abbott, 

 Esq., of Clarence Town, Long Island. 



Sir William Grey-Wils 

 suited with him relative 



are the southeastern islands of the archipelago, including the 

 island of Samana, Miriguana Island, the several islands of the 

 Caicos bank, the Ragged Cays, and at the extreme southwest 

 of the archipelago the small islands on the Cay Sal bank. I 



of the archipelago ■...,_ „„,„! , 

 secured from Mr. Pinder the ui 



part, which is 40 miles o 

 or botanically, having r 



toward the end of the present year. 



: of the group, and the nearest large 

 The interior of this island at its widest 

 ore, is unknown, either geographically 



