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field in time for the early train. Kingston was reached without 

 incident, and in the afternoon I visited the institute and made 

 final arrangements for my lecture in the evening. Owing to a 

 rather exaggerated participation in oranges at Mandeville I was 

 feeling rather 'seedy', as the hotel clerk expressed it, but was able 

 to hold up till my lecture was over, and then promptly collapsed 

 on reaching the hotel. I remained in bed the following day, Sun- 

 day, and on Monday devoted what little energy I had left to pack- 

 ing up my property. 



The boat left Kingston at i P. M. on the following day. 

 After stopping at Morant Bay, where to my regret I found it too 

 late in the day to secure good pictures of the bananas being taken 

 aboard, we cleared for Boston at one o'clock in the morning, all 

 hands aboard. Two diys on the water completely dissipated my 

 indisposition, and Boston was safely reached at twelve o'clock on 

 the following Sunday night. 



We landed at seven o'clock on Monday morning, and after 

 spending two days in visiting the innumerable points of interest 

 about the city returned to Buffalo. 



On unpacking my trunks at the hotel I found that owing to 

 somebody's carelessness my trunk had been standing in several 

 inches of water for some days, and as a result a quantity of speci- 

 mens of tropical fruits, etc., that I was bringing to the Museum 

 were mouldy. However I succeeded in getting safely here speci- 

 mens of cocoa, cane, cocoanut, tobacco, ginger and others of 

 interest. 



My pictures, however, with one or two exceptions, were good. 

 I secured in all something over four hundred negatives, most of 

 which have been made up into slides and added to our collection. 



Among the slides may be mentioned the following: 



A series of twenty on banana culture and shipping. 



A series of thirty two on native fruits, showing plant, form and 

 structure of the fruit. 



A series on sugar, showing canes, wagons used in hauling, crush 

 ing mill, boiling house, etc. 



