sonal interest and enthusiasm constantly displayed, and for the 

 sacrifices and discomforts endured on my behalf in the ascent of 

 Chance's Mountain and other excursions ; to Mr. Dudley John- 

 son, my host, and to Mr. E. Gilks, his manager at Roches, for 

 facilities afforded while in that most interesting but inaccessible 

 region ; to Miss H. Kirwan for the gracious manner in which she 

 dismissed the charges of trespass so seriously filed against me by 

 an over-zealous servant while collecting on Fergus Mountain, on 

 one of her estates ; to Mr. J. T. Allen, editor of the Montserrat 

 Herald, for his personal guidance through the higher mountain 

 ravines of his remarkable estate ; and to Mr. Jackson, curator, 

 and to Mr. Thibou* foreman of the botanical station at Antigua, 

 for aid and facilities afforded me at that institution. 

 Respectfully, 



J. A. Shafer, 

 Museum Custodian. 



SPRIXG LECTURES, 1907. 



To be delivered in the lecture hall of the museum building of 

 the garden, Bronx Park, on Saturday afternoons, at four o'clock, 

 as follows : 



April 27. " The Life Story of a Tree," by Dr. C. Stuart 

 Gager. 



May 4. " The Flowers of Trees and Shrubs Growing Wild 

 near New York City," by Dr. N. L. Britton. 



•May 11. "Jamaica: Its Flora, Scenery, and Recent Disas- 

 ter," by Dr. M. A. Howe. 



May 18. " Water Lilies and other Aquatic Plants ; their Re- 

 lation to Horticulture," by Mr. G. V. Nash. 



May 25. " The Influence of Vegetation in the Formation of 

 Recent and Ancient Swamps," by Dr. Arthur Hollick. 



June 1. "Some Little Known Edible Fruits of the United 

 " by Dr. H. H. Rusby. 



The lee 





They will close in time for auditors to take the 5.34 t 



the Botanical Garden railway station, arriving at Grand Central 



Station at 6.05 P.M. 



