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largely from the vicinity of Nassau, are in the herbarium of the New 

 York Botanical Garden. 

 1903. Prof. Lucien M. Underwood and E. W. D. Holway accompanied 

 Prof. Earle on the trip (mentioned above). Prof. Holway informs us 

 that his collections consisted solely of Busts. These are at present in his 

 private herbarium. 

 1903. A. H. Curtiss collected his first series of "West Indian Plants" in 

 April, 1903, in the neighborhood of Nassau, New Providence. This series 

 comprises numbers 1^211, of which the prime set, with the unnumbered 

 unicates, is deposited in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden, 

 the first distributed set in the Herbarium of the Field Museum and several 

 others in various American and European herbaria. 

 1903. Dr. William C. Ooker, botanist of the Bahamian expedition of the 

 Geographical Society of Baltimore, assisted by Messrs. C. A. Shore and F. 

 M. Hanes, collected in the summer of 1903 on the following islands: New 

 Providence (1-193, 247-^05, 551), Andros Island and Little and Great 

 Mangrove Cays (194-334), Green Cay (235-246), George's Island (306- 

 317), Eleuthera (318-^21), Cat Island (422^37), Eum Cay (438-457), 

 Watling's Island (458-491, 521, 5'28), Long Island (492-520, 524), Water 

 Cay (523, 525), Abaco (568-568, 575-6), and Elbow Cay (569-574). This 

 collection was deposited in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Gar- 

 den, and forms the basis of his "Vegetation of the.Bahama Islands" in 

 Shattuck 's ' ' The Bahama Islands. ' ' Owing to the insufficiency of the 

 material secured many phanerogams therein published are based upon 

 provisional determinations only. The cryptogams exist under a separate 

 series of numbers. 

 1904. Dr. N. L. Britton collected on New Providence in April, 1904, in the 

 neighborhood of Nassau, South Side Beach, Blue Hills, Farrindon Eoad, 

 West Bay Street Eoad, Cunningham Eoad, Lake Cunningliam, and Old 

 Fort. In this preliminary investigation, in company with Millspaugh, he 

 collected 158 numbers (1-158). An account of the field work is published 

 in the Journal of the New York Botanical Garden 5 : 129-136. See also 

 Britton & Brace, and Britton & Millspaugh. 

 1904. Dr. C. F. Millspaugh began his collections among the islands on New 

 Providence, in April, 1904, in company with Dr. N. L. Britton (see Brit- 

 ton), visiting substantially the same stations, where, as hia collecting was 

 to extend to other islands, he kept his individual series of numerals. He 

 collected at the following localities: Blue Hills (2048-2100), South Shore 

 (2101-2151 and 2262-2277), West Bay Street road (2152-2178), pine 

 barrens and hammock lands along Lake Cunningham' road (2179-2217), 

 region of Lake Cunningham (2218-2244), Farringdon Eoad (2245-7), 

 Swingate (2248-51), Old Fort (2252-4), and Waterloo (2255-61). Then 

 hiring and commissioning a sloop, he sailed in company with Dr. M. A. 

 Howe for an investigation of the Bimini Islands, collecting at the follow- 

 ing stations: West End Bight, New Providence (2278-2293), Joulter'a 

 Cays (2i2O4^2304), Gun Cay (2305-2328), North Cat Cay (2329-2347, 



