38 Part I. Chapter ı. 
National Herbarium at Washington. — F. BOERGESEN and OVE PAULSEN ex- 
plored the Danish West Indies from an ecologic and phytogeographic stand- 
point and published their joint labors in a paper entitled Om Vegetationen 
paa de Dansk Vestindiske Oeer in 1898. This appeared in ı900 in a French 
dress under title of La Vegetation des Antilles Danoises, as an extract from 
the twelfth volume of La Revue Generale de Botanique. The Algae of Ja- 
maica by FRANK SHIPLEY COLLINS is a paper printed in the Proceedings of 
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in November 1901. 
CHARLES FREDERICK MILLSPAUGH in the first volume of the Botanical Series 
of the Field Columbian Museum 1902 contributes a paper (No. 7) on the Flora 
of the island of St. Croix. Flora of New Providence and Andros is the title 
of a paper by ALICE R. NORTHROP in the twelfth volume No. ı of Memoirs 
of the Torrey Botanical Club issued December 1902. J. W. HARSHBERGER, 
who made a botanic visit to Great Inagua, Haiti and Jamaica during the sum- 
mer of 1900, has written two articles that deal with the phytogeography of 
those islands, viz., An Ecological Sketch of the Flora of Santo Domingo in 
the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences for ıgor and Notes on 
the Strand Flora of Great Inagua, Haiti and Jamaica in Torreya for May 1903. 
Symbolae Antillanae seu Fundamenta Florae Indiae Occidentalis by IGNA- 
TIUS URBAN, which began to appear in 1898 has been continued since. The 
first volume contains an almost complete bibliography of West Indian botany 
' a mine which has been drawn upon for many facts presented here. In June 
1903, the Geographical Society of Baltimore fitted out an expedition to the 
Bahama Islands. The results, edited by George B. Shattuck with botany by 
WILLIAM G. COKER, appeared in 1905 in a volume of 630 pages entitled the 
Bahama Islands. i 
Unusual activity has recently been shown by American botanists in the 
study of the West Indian flora. D. H. CAMPBELL, D. T. Mac DouGaL and 
DUNCAN S. JOHNSON have visited Jamaica. F.S. EARLE visited the islands of 
Jamaica and Puerto Rico where he went in the interests of plant mycology. 
G. V. NAsH was sent to Haiti by the New York Botanical Garden. LUCIEN 
M. UNDERWOOD has been in Jamaica to study its fern flora, N. L. BRITTON has 
visited St. Kitts and the islands of Cuba, Jamaica and the Bahaman archipelago, 
and MRS. BRITTON. has made large collections of Cuban mosses. FRANCIS 
E. LLovD and Mrs. LrovD have botanized in the Island of Dominica and 
MARSHALL A. HoOWE has been to the Bermudas and Puerto Rico to study the 
ge algac. A tropic research botanic laboratory has been established at 
Cinchona in the Blue mountains of Jamaica under the auspices of the New York 
Botanical Garden, which institution has begun the publication of a Flora of the 
whole of North America. Another research station has been started at Bermuda 
under the charge of the scientists of Harvard University and the University of 
the City of New York. The first session was held during the summer of 1903. 
The above historic summary does not clai 
ir m to be complete, The most 
salient facts have been chosen, which 
illustrate the development of knowledge 
