JOURNAL 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. V. October, 1904. “No. 58. 
A VISIT TO THE BOTANICAL LABORATORY AT 
CINCHONA, JAMAICA 
The Tropical Laboratory of the New York Botanical Garden 
at Cinchona, Jamaica, like the Biological Station at Naples, gives 
the American student the advantage of life in a foreign country 
in addition to what he gains botanically, and the trip from New 
York at sea level in latitude 42° N. to Cinchona, at 5,000 ft. eleva- 
tion and only 18° N. from the equator affords many novel and 
interesting experiences. The five or six days at sea are most rest- 
ful and make good preparation for mountain climbing later. There 
is no bother about steamer rugs nor wraps on deck, yet sufficient 
breeze to make the cabins very tolerable, and rough weather is 
the exception, so that nearly every one on board is a “good 
sailor.” The passenger list includes patriotic Colombians always 
ready to talk about the misfortunes of their country, Germans, 
Italians, Jews, and Bohemians of one sort or another on their way 
to the islands or to the various South American ports, willing to 
risk fever in the hope of gain, interesting people to observe and 
in some cases to know, in the space between the last glimpse of 
Barnegat Light and the first shadowy outline of Cuba. 
The approach to Kingston in the early morning is a brilliant 
picture. Along the shore at the east are tall cocoanut palms 
with their crowns of dark green, dun colored quarries, the re 
brick buildings of Port Royal Dock yards, and at the southwest 
the ruins of the old fort and the black salt marshes, with a fore- 
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