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FLORA OF NEW PROVIDENCE AND ANDROS 
WITH; AN ENUMERATION OF THE PLANTS COLLECTED BY JOHN |. NORTHROP АКО 
ALICE В. NORTHROP, IN 1890 
By ALIcE К. NORTHROP 
INTRODUCTION 
During the latter part of 1889, a report of the work in the 
Bahamas of the Danish botanist, Baron Eggers, was received at 
the herbarium of Columbia University and with it a letter from 
Sir William Thiselton-Dyer, expressing a hope that American 
botanists would continue the exploration. My husband, Dr. John 
I. Northrop, Instructor in Biology at Columbia University, was at 
that time contemplating a southern trip for the purpose of study- 
ing and collecting marine invertebrates. Sir William Thiselton- 
Dyer’s letter was brought to his notice and the result was that a 
Bahaman trip was planned with both objects in view. Over six 
months were spent on the islands, from January to July, 1800. 
Of this time two months were passed on the island of New Provi- 
dence, where the time was mainly taken up with zoological work, 
and the remainder on Andros, where the most interesting plant 
collections were made. 
In order to understand properly the distribution of the plants 
and the relations of the flora, it will be necessary to give a general 
idea of the position and conformation of the two islands visited. 
New Providence is one of the smaller islands of the group, being 
only about twenty miles long and seven wide. It lies on the 
northern edge of a portion of the Great Bahama Bank. | Nassau, 
the seat of government and a well-known health resort, is situated 
on the slope of a ridge that runs along the northern shore of the 
island. The highest point of this ridge, Fort Fincastle, is about 
J Memoirs Torrey Botanical Club, Volume 12. 
[ No. т issued го December 1902. | 
