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The Bahama Islands 



Edited by GEORGE BURBANK SHATTUCK, Ph.D., 



Assistant Professor of Physiographic Oeology in the Johns Hopkins University. 



With 92 plates, of which 25 are color-illustrations of vegetation, fishes, maps ; 

 also map 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, 1903, 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, Paleon- 

 tology, Tides, Earth Magnetism, Climate, Kite-flying in the Tropics for atmospheric 

 observations, Agriculture, Botany, Mosquitoes, Fishes, Reptiles, Birds, Mammals, 

 Medical Conditions, Social 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 chapter on Geology is written by Dr. George B. 

 Shattuck of the Johns Hopkins University, and Dr. Benjamin LeRoj^ Miller of 

 Bryn Mawr College ; that on Paleontology by Dr. Wm. H. 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 public 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 popular lectures by distinguished 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 suffered at the hands of the publishers. It is in every way an admirable 

 piece of scientific book work. — The Philadelphia Ledger. 



Published for the Geographical Society of Baltimore by 



THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 



Publishers, 64=66 Fifth Ave., New York. 



