JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. IV. November, 1903. No. 47 
REPORT ON CUBAN EXPLORATION. 
(Presented October 20, 1903, and ordered printed. } 
To THE ScIENTIFIC DIRECTORS. 
Gentlemen: By permission of Mr. D. O. Mills, President of 
the Board of Managers, I visited the island of Cuba during parts 
of August and September, for the purpose of continuing the 
botanical survey begun in March, at which time I made obser- 
vations and collections in the provinces of Matanzas and Havana, 
assisted by Mrs. Britton and by Mr. J. A. Shafer, custodian of 
Botany at the Carnegie Museum of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, while 
at the same time the Province of Santiago was being explore 
by Professors Underwood and Earle: after my return, the work 
was carried on during April by Mr. Shafer in the provinces of 
Havana and Pinar del Rio. 
I left New York on August 23 accompanied by Mrs. Britton, 
and by Mr. Percy Wilson, my Administrative Assistant, proceed- 
ing by rail to Tampa, Florida, where a day’s waiting for a steamer 
to Havana enabled us to make an interesting collection of museum 
and herbarium specimens and a few living plants, specimens of 
88 different species being there secured on August 25. A half- 
day’s delay between trains at Jacksonville, on the morning of the 
24th enabled us to collect a basketful of living plants and museum 
material. Reaching Havana on August 27, we proceeded the 
same day to Matanzas, and the work of exploration was taken 
up in the vicinity of that city the next morning and continued 
there and at Cardenas until September 2, traversing much of the 
same ground as was studied in March, for the especial purposes 
