Wille cruising tlirougrli tlie "West In- 



^ (lies It Is planned to visit the various — 

 tropical agrricultural gardens and aeveraJ^ 

 t the smaller islands not touched by th^ 

 '•gular trade routes, and, tlierofore, not 

 isited by naturalists for many years. 

 They hope to collect specimens of plants 

 M.nd seeds for introduction in the experi- 

 mental stations at Summit, Canal Zone, 

 Tela, Honduras, and the Harvard Gar- 

 dens in Cuba, and zoological specimens 

 lor the collections of the Museum of 

 I V.iiiparative Zoology. They will return 

 to the United States about the middle of 

 May. 



Prof. Ames to Leave for Cuba 



Professor Oakes Ames, '98, chairman 

 of the Council of Botanical Collections 

 and supervisor of the Biological Labora- 

 tory and Botanic Harden in Cuba, will 

 ■Jso leave on a southern trip early next 

 month, when he will visit the Biological 

 f.aboratory and Botanic Qai-den in Cuba, 

 [le Intends to carry on research work In 

 connection with economic botany and to 

 make a survey of the station with a view 

 to obtaining data for possible alterations 

 0 bo made in the future. 



SATURDAY^FEBRl ART 9,^929 

 isthel Quincy Bumstead 



She Was Pupil of Abbott Graves, Mem- 

 ber of the Copley Soriety, and Resident 

 of Cambridge 



Ethel Quincy Bunstead, who died In 

 Cambridge Friday, was born in London, 

 England. She was the daughter o£ .Ur. 

 loreeman J. and Mary .1. (White) Bum- 

 stead of New York. ' Her mother was 

 the daughter of Ferdinand Elhot 'VV hita 

 of Boston, and both parents wero de- 

 scended from old Colonial families. 



