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habitants, and a good many other matters not usually regarded as 

 botanical, but enriching the picture from the human point of view. 

 Ver}^ much such a work is that now lying before us. We well know 

 that Marie- Victorin is enamoured of Cuba and has been busy for 

 some time, in cooperation with Frere Leon, in studying its vegeta- 

 tion. But the results of their work embrace more than collections 

 and descriptions of long lost or new species. One of these results 

 is this volume of "Itineraries" by the perusal of which botanists 

 interested in tropical vegetation (and what botanist is not?) will 

 gain a vivid impression of what may be seen in the island of Cuba. 

 This is the more so because of the plenitude of illustration. As the 

 reviewer knows, the camera is almost a part of Marie- Victorin, and 

 we see in this publication embellished with about 280 photographs, 

 with a number of line drawings and a large map, an account which 

 appeals directly to the eye. Thus one gets a full and detailed impres- 

 sion of how the country actually looks, and one feels as if he had 

 seen Cuba for himself. The liberal use of native names and frequent 

 descriptions of the uses made of the vegetable products enhances 

 this impression. More than this, there are many allusions to human 

 relations, some of which appeal directly to the heart. 



Francis E. Lloyd 



Diary and Travels of the Bartranis 



Diary of a Journey through the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida from 

 July 1, 1765 to April 10, 1766. By John Bartram. Annotated by Francis 

 Harper. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 33(1) : iv -|- 120. 

 portrait, 8 maps, 27 fig. December, 1942. Paper cover $2.00. 



Travels in Georgia and Florida, 1773-74; A Report to Dr. John Fother- 

 gill. By William Bartram. Annotated by Francis Harper. Trans. Am. Phil. 

 Soc. 33(2) : about 115 pp. portrait, 5 maps, 47 fig. Spring 1943. Paper 

 cover $2.00. Parts 1 and 2 bound together in cloth $5.00. 



John Bartram was a Quaker botanist to the King of England. 

 He was the first botanical investigator of the upper reaches of the 

 St. John's River in Florida, and of the greater part of Georgia. 

 As a friend and guest of the elite in Charleston, and of several 

 colonial governors, he observed and portrayed pre-Revolutionary 

 life in the southern cities of Charleston, Savannah, and St. Augus- 

 tine, as well as life on the plantations and in the wilderness. He 

 described the architecture of the first Spanish period in St. Augus- 

 tine, and told of the easternmost known calumet ceremony, at 



