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it was under the care of Mr. Harris, several dozens were new to science, 
while scores or probably hundreds were of species known elsewhere but 
hitherto unreported in Jamaica. Because of this wide experience in the 
field, coupled with his remarkably retentive memory of the appearance 
of any plant that he had once seen, he probably knew the characters 
and distribution of the vascular plants of Jamaica more thoroughly than 
they had been known by any earlier botanist. The herbarium built 
up under his care is perhaps the most important in the West Indies. 
The publications of Mr. Harris include several considerable pam- 
phlets published separately and numerous briefer articles and reports in 
the Bulletin of the Botanical Department of Jamaica. Most of these 
were on the economic and ornamental plants of the island. It is fitting 
that his services to botany should be commemorated in the names of the 
plants he discovered. This is done by the generic names Harrisia 
(Cactaceae) and Harrisiella (Orchidaceae), as well as by the specific 
names Harrisii or Harrisiana given to a score or so of ferns and seed 
plants, which will serve to remind future botanists of the part he 
played in West Indian botany. 
It is due to the alertness and initiative of Mr. Harris that the 
Cinchona Tropical Station has been open to American botanists during 
the past 18 years. On each of the several occasions when Cinchona 
seemed likely to be diverted from the botanical service for which it is 
so eminently fitted, it was he who made the first move toward insuring 
its continuance as a botanical station. All American botanists who 
have worked in Jamaica have a very warm appreciation of the keenly 
intelligent assistance rendered them by Mr. Harris on every occasion. » 
Those of us who may be fortunate enough to work in Jamaica again will 
miss his courteous and resourceful aid. Most of all will we miss his 
cordial welcome to the hospitality of Hope Gardens and the stimulating 
contact with an enthusiastic naturalist and an altogether delightful 
man.—D. S. Jounson, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. 
