... to the West Indian Islands, undertaken in order to examine the plants found in different parts of the Atlantic and in the Caribbean Sea. A large number of slides of the different plants were then exhibited on the screen, many of them of exquisite beauty ...

... immediately to the north of the island of Porto Rico, where 27,388 ft. has I•een measured, and another of 25,248 ft. In the Caribbean Sea, also, off the western extremity of Jamaica, the lead has gone down 20,240 ft. to reads the bottom. From these particulate ...