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through the extensive clearing and the probable introduction of 
cosmopolitan weeds. 
PREVIOUS COLLECTORS 
Mark Catesby explored and collected along the southern At- 
lantic coast from 1731 to 1743 and during that time made a trip to 
the Bahamas, visiting New Providence and also touching inciden- 
tally at Andros. Some of the plants he collected were figured in 
his Natural History of Carolina, published in 1754. The next 
record we have of Bahaman plants were the collections sent to 
Sir William Hooker by Mr. Swainson between 1838 and 1842. 
_ These were described by Grisebach and incorporated in his Flora 
of the British West Indies published in 1864. Less than two 
hundred species were there recorded from the Bahamas. Be- 
tween 1880 and 1887, Mr. L. J. K. Brace, of Nassau, sent to 
Kew through Governor Robinson a large number of Bahaman 
plants. А list of these has been incorporated in a Provisional 
List of the Plants of the Bahama Islands, by Gardiner, Brace, 
and Dolley, which was published by Dr. Dolley in the Proceed- 
ings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia in 1880. 
This list however is not always clear as to which are native 
and which cultivated species, and in the majority of cases the place 
of collection is not given. A small collection of plants made by a 
Mr. Cooper were presumably sent to Dr. Torrey at Columbia 
University, as they form a part of the Torrey herbarium. With 
very few exceptions, all the above collections were made on the 
island of New Providence. 
In 1887, a grant was made by the British Association, for the 
investigation of the Bahaman flora, and the Danish botanist, Baron 
Eggers, undertook the work. He spent from November 1887, to 
April 1888, in the islands and brought back 314 species. A few 
were collected on Fortune Island and Long Island but the great 
majority were from New Providence. Professor T. H. Herrick, of 
Johns Hopkins, visited Abaco in 1886 and collected a small num- 
ber of plants noted in the Johns Hopkins Univ. Circ. 6:46. During 
the winter of 1800-01, Professor Albert S. Hitchcock, of the Mis- 
souri Botanical Garden, accompanied a party of naturalists, headed 
by Dr. J. T. Rothrock, of the University of Pennsylvania, on an 
