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To Mr. Charles Squier, the genial traffic superintendent of the 
Jamaica Government Railway, we are indebted for the free trans- 
portation of the material collected during the exploration. 
As you will remember it was my intention to spend a short 
time in Dominica. The diffjculty and loss of time encountered 
in passing from one island to another, added to the fact that there 
was more than enough to occupy my time in Jamaica, led to the 
abandonment of this part of the trip for the present.* 
The John Crow Range, still untouched by any botanist, Bull 
Head, Dolphin Head and the Ocho Rios regions still unvisited 
by me, the higher portions of Mt. Moses, the Diablo range and 
the entire Cockpit country on which we barely touched one edge, 
are all regions that still demand exploration. Some time I hope 
to collect some of the remaining hundred species of ferns in Ja- 
maica itself. The island is comparatively small, but the details 
of its botanical features still remain to be exploited. 
Lucien M. UNperwoop. 
I June. 1903. 
THE TREE-FERN HOUSE. 
In part by gift and by exchange, but mainly through acquisitions 
made by expeditions to the West Indies, the collection of tree ferns 
installed in this house has recently been markedly increased in 
number of specimens so much so that the collection will soon out- 
grow its present quarters and require more room for its accom- 
modation. The gifts and principal exchanges have been chron- 
icled in the JouRNAL from time to time. The results of the 
expeditions have not been noted. During the fall of 1901, Dr. 
Britton, on his return from an exploration of the island of St. 
Kitts, brought back with him a number of these interesting ferns, 
and these are now making a vigorous growth. Two of these are 
* Dominica is now being explored = Professor Lloyd of Teachers College, who, 
me that 
Herrman Fund of the Council of the ears Alliance of New York. When 
Professor Underwood returns from Europe in the autumn he will therefore probably 
find a good representation of Dominican ferns to add to his already immense and 
valuable accumulation of specimens.—. L. B. 
