SOUFEIERE, AND ON A VISIT TO MONTAGNE PELEE, IN 1902. 
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district at Georgetown, Captain Calder and the members of the police force 
throughout the island, the Rev. Mr. Bell, the Rev. Mr. Leslie, and many others 
whom space will not allow us to mention. 
The planters and merchants with whom we came in contact in every case did 
everything they could to help us, and the numerous replies which we received to our 
printed schedule of inquiries have very largely been embodied in the text of this 
report, and acknowledgment made of the sources from which the information was 
derived. We desire to thank all those who have in this and other ways enabled us 
to collect the data on which our report is founded. 
From St. Lucia, Major Hodder, R.E., has sent us many interesting details of his 
observations during the whole period of the eruptions. 
Dr. Morris, head of the Imperial Dejiartment of Agriculture for the West Indies, 
has sujiplied us with much important scientific information ; and the officials of his 
department, both in Barbados and throughout the islands, have forsvarded to us 
valuable material, and have been of the greatest assistance to us in many ways. 
We wish to acknowledge also the information given us by Bishop Swaby, of 
Barbados, and by the Rev. N. B. Watson, 
In Dominica, Dr. H. Alford Nicholls, C.M.G., placed at our service his Intimate 
knowledge of the island and the history of its eruptions, and Mr. G. F. Branch, at the 
kind request of the Administrator, made the necessary arrangements for visiting the 
Boiling Lake. To Mr. Porter, of the West India and Panama Telegraph Company, 
we are indebted for the barographic tracings reproduced in the text {Fig. 3), 
Dr. Tempest Anderson was hospitably entertained by Mr. Duncan Naish, Picard, 
and Mr. J. Sowtray. 
Our best thanks are due to M. L’Huerre, the Governor of Martinique, who 
received us with great courtesy, and to Professor A. Lacroix for the kindness with 
which he explained to us the results of his investigations in the island. 
In Grenada Dr. Tempest Anderson wms most hospitably entertained by Sir R. 
Llewelyn, and to that gentleman and his family, and Mr. Preston, his private 
secretary, his warmest thanks are due. He desires also to thank Major Bayly 
and Mr, Richard Heald for assistance on the spot, and Mr. Fr.4nk Rowntree, 
and Mr. J. Bowes Morrell, of York, for historical information, also Mr. C. P. 
Lucas, C.B., and Mr. Walter Scott, of the Colonial Office, for searching out 
and verifying the details in the library of that office. 
