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fern species seen, even those of general distribution, an account 
of which will appear in the general report on the Jamaica ferns, 
to be prepared jointly by Mr. Maxon and myse 
The results of the expedition may be footed up in 3,000 num- 
bers of herbarium specimens and seven boxes of living ferns and 
orchids, for which I had recommended a special appropriation to 
be made. Of the 3,000 herbarium numbers about one half con- 
sists of ferns and one fourth hepatics; the remaining fourth is 
largely mosses, but with two hundred or more lichens, a few 
algae, one hundred or more fungi, and perhaps as many flower- 
ing plants. 
Maxon secured about 1,300 numbers, many of which are 
of flowering plants; quite a number of the latter were secured in 
duplicate for which I have arranged an exchange for some of 
the ferns collected during my first Cinchona residence and not 
obtaine 
In all over ioui hundred species of ferns were collected and 
studied afield. It was my purpose to make this collection in con- 
nection with the Cuban ferns obtained with Professor Earle, the 
most notable collection ever brought out of the West Indies and 
I believe I have succeeded in my effort. Duplicates were largely 
disregarded so that the bulk of the collection is practically unique, 
except that the 300 species collected with Mr. Maxon are equally 
represented in his collection in the U. S. National Museum. In 
securing the larger species care was taken to show, as far as the 
limits of a series of herbarium sheets could do, the habit and en- 
tire character of the plant. In some cases this required as many 
as five or six sheets to illustrate a single leaf, and in most of the 
plants collected the appearance of the entire leaf may be easily 
made out and exhibited on the sheets. In case the root was too 
large it was kept with the specimen for the sheet, but in many 
cases the roots have been separately collected for preservation in 
boxes. In the case of the numerous tree ferns collected, not only 
has the entire leaf from petiole to apex been preserved in a serial 
collection, but a specimen of the top of the trunk fifteen to twenty 
inches long was secured, showing the important characters con- 
nected with the armature of the petiole and the leaf scars. This 
