JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. V. November, 1904. No. 59, 
REPORT ON EXPLORATION OF THE BAHAMAS. 
(Submitted October 12, 1904, and ordered printed. ) 
To THE BoarD oF MANAGERS OF THE NEw York Boranicar 
GARDEN. 
Gentlemen: With the approval of Mr. D. O. Mills, President 
of the Garden, I conducted botanical exploration in the 
‘Islands during parts of August and September, 1904, in continua- 
tion of the work done in that archipelago last spring, as already 
reported by Dr. Marshall A. Howe and by me.* I was accom- 
panied and assisted by Mrs. Britton, and is Mr. L. J. K. Brace, 
a resident botanist of Nassau, New Providence. 
In following up the ee aa by me last spring, 
that we undertake a detailed botanical survey of the Bahamas, I 
decided to first examine the flora of New Providence, that being 
already the best known botanically of all the islands, and thus 
serving as the most aed basis for subsequent work ; while 
its flora was thus relatively well known, many parts of its area 
had not been visited by aes and my expectation that a 
considerable numbef of rare or otherwise interesting species oc- 
curred there, though not reported, has been fulfilled by the re- 
sults of my recent trip. 
The island of New Providence is about twenty one miles long 
and about seven miles in greatest width; its longer axis lies 
* JourNAL N. Y. Bot. Garb. §: 129-136, 164-166, 1904. 
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