PREFACE. VII 
the Royal Gardens at Kew, which will greatly extend the interest of 
the Bermudas as a botanic garden. 
The catalogue of Bermuda Mammals (Part III), by Mr. J. Matthew 
Jones, is one of the monographs, which will probably never be extended 
unless by the addition of certain species of whales. 
Capt. Savile G. Reid’s essay on Bermuda Ornithology (Part IV) is the 
final result of the labors of Jones, Hurdis, Wedderburn, and others, and 
may be regarded as a final report. Much of the completeness of this 
list is due to the labors of a most ingenious local collector, Mr. John T. 
Bartram, of Stock’s Point, whose little museum is full of interesting ma. 
terial. 
Dr. C. Hart Merriam, in a short visit to the islands in 1878, discov- 
ered one or two additional species of Birds, which, by special request, 
he records in Part V. 
Mr. Samuel Garman’s paper on Bermudian Herpetology (Part VI) is 
undoubtedly a final statement. The discussion of the marine turtles in 
this paper is of great general interest. 
Professor Webster’s paper on the Annelids (Part VII) is only a be- 
ginning, being based upon a very incomplete collection gathered in con- 
nection with other work. 
A number of other papers are in preparation, and it is hoped that 
they may be completed within the next year. Among these are a second 
edition of the present writer’s Fishes of Bermuda, and papers on the 
Crustaceans, by Prof. 8. I. Smith; the Radiates, by Prof. A. E. Verrill; 
the Sponges, by Prof. A. Hyatt; the Spiders, by J. H. Emerton; and 
the Mollusks, by J. Matthew Jones. 
G. BROWN GOODE. 
WASHINGTON, April 2, 1884. 
