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Nils Rosén 



Another expedition was sent to the Bahamas and Florida by the State Univer- 

 sity of Iowa in 1893. Professor C. C. Nutting, the leader of the expedition, has 

 written a general report : Narrative and Preliminary Report of the Bahama Expedition. 

 Bull. Lab. Nat. Hist. Iowa. — Among the collections made during this exploration 

 trip the moUusks and brachiopods have been described by W. Dall (Bull. Lab. Nat. 

 Hist. Towa, Vol. 4 no. 1, 1896), the ophiurians by A. E. Veerill (ibid. Vol. 5, 1899), 

 the actiniarians by Mc Mttrrich (ibid. Vol. 4, no. 3, 1898), the Braehyura by Mary 

 J. Rathburn (ibid.), the fishes by S. Gaemaît (ibid. vol. 4, no. 1). 



In the summer 1892 the Johns Hopkins Marine Laboratory was stationed 

 in North Bimini, one of the Bahamas at the edge of the Gulf Stream. Among 

 animals collected during this time may be mentioned Asymmetron lucaynnum, descri- 

 bed by Andrews (Johns Hopk. Univ. Circulars Vol. 12). 



Alexander Agassiz went in the winter 1893 to the Bahamas especially to 

 study the formation of the islands ; but at the same time several hauls with deep- 

 sea nets were made and zoological specimens collected at some places. The results 

 of theses studies have been published in the very important paper : A Reconnaissance 

 of the Bahamas (BuU. Mus. Comp.' Zool. Harvard. Vol. 26, 1894). 



The Geographical Society of Baltimore equipped a rather large expedition which 

 in the summer of 1903 went to the Bahamas under the direction of G. B. Shattuck. 

 Many islands were visited, but only for a very short time, the stay of the expe- 

 dition in the archipelago lasting only a few weeks. The results are mostly of geo- 

 logical and geographical interest, but also contributions to the knowledge of the 

 fauna have been given, published by Miller (the mammals), Riley (the birds), 

 Stejneger (reptiles and batrachians) and B. Bean (the fishes). A large monograph 

 about the islands was published by Shattuck in cooperation with several naturalists 

 {The Bahama Islands. New York 1905). 



Henry Bryant studied the avifauna of the Bahamas in 1859 and 1866, visit- 

 ing a great number of the islands. He published papers on his results in several 

 volumes of the Proceed, of the Society of Natural History of Boston. Owen Bryant, 

 G. M. Allen and T. Barbour spent a month on some of the Bahamas (New Pro- 

 vidence, Great Abaco, Little Abaco, Grand Bahama) in 1904. Barbour also paid a 

 visit to the Islands in 1901, and Bryant visited Andros in 1904 Allen and Bar- 

 bour have issued a •» Narrative of a Trip to the Bahamas» (Cambridge, Mass. 1904). 

 Several papers contain the results, of which may be mentioned one about the shells 

 by Dall (Smithson. Collect, quart. 47), another about the reptiles by Barbour 

 (Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Vol. 46, 1904), another by Cole about a pycnogonid. 



C. J. Mavnard collected for the Museum of Comp. Zool. at Harvard in 1888 

 on Andros, Rum ('ay, Long Isl., Inagua and some smaller islands. The birds were 

 described by himself, the reptiles and batrachians by Garman. 



J. Lewis-Bonhote lived in the Bahamas for some time, studying the bird life 

 (Ibis 1889 and 1903). 



