SCIENCE 



New Series. q---l t-i 

 Vol. XXI. No. 547. Q » v> I 



^'Friday, June 23, 1905. 



Single Copies, 15 Cts. 

 Annual Subscription, 85.00. 





The Bahama Islands 



Edited by QEORQE BURBANK SHATTUCK, Ph.D., 



Assistant Professor of Pliysiograpliic Geology in t/ie Johns Hopkins University. 



With 92 plates, of ivhich 25 are, color-illustrations of vegetation, fishes, majjs ; 

 also 7nap and diagrams. 



32 + 630 p. Royal Quarto, il., cL, $10.00 net. 



'•The Bahama Islands" is issued as the first monograph of The Geographical Society of Baltimore. 

 In .June, 19C3, the Society equipped and sent out to the Bahama Islands a scientific expedition under the 

 direction of Dr. George B. Shattuck of the Johns Hopkins University. Investigations were carried on in 

 Geology, Paleontology, Tides, Eirth Magnetism, Climate, Kite-ttying Jin the Tropics for atmospheric 

 observations, Agriculture, Bi tany, Mosquitoes, Fishes, Eeptiles, Birds, Mammals, Medical Conditions, 

 Soical Conditions, and the History of the Islands, compiled from original records in possession of the 

 government. The book contains chapters on each of these subjects. The chajiteron Geology is written by 

 Dr. George B. Shattuck of the .Johns Hopkins University, and Dr. Benjamin LeRoy Miller of Bryn Mawr 

 College; that on Paleontology by Dr. Wm. II. Dall, U. S. National Museum; that on Tides, by L. P. Shidy, 

 U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, and so on. 



" That the Geographical Society of Baltimore should have had the jiublic spirit and the wisdom to 

 devote its resources to an object of such permanent value and usefulness is a matter for hearty congratu- 

 lation. Its course in this respect should be made an example for like societies elsewhere, for this book on 

 the Bahamas will be of lasting value when jiopular lectures by distiuguished travelers are forgotten. It is 

 not too much to say that this first monograph of the Baltimore society is the most complete which has ever 

 been written on the subject, and that it will be for a long time to come the standard reference authority on 

 the Bahamas. The work has not sutfered at the hands of the publishers. It is in every way an admirable 

 piece of Boientific book work. — T/ie Philadelphia Ledger. 



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