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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumj08amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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84 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL "A small schooner, a regulation 'sponger' was secured for the work on the reef, the owner, )Mr. J. Kemp, a local collector and dealer in cornls, serving as captain, and a week after leaving New York we sailed from Nassau for Andros Island. Reaching Mangrove Cay on the follow- ing evening, we were warmly received by Rev. )Mr. F. B. jNIatthews, Rector of All Saints, who has repeatedly shown himself an active and valuable friend of the ^Museum. On the present occasion he not only offered his study and magistrate's court to the expedition for use as a
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MADREPORE CORAL. A large specimen on the beach at Staniarcl Rock, Anth'os, after being floated from the place where it was found. laboratory, but, since he was on the point of leaving for a trip to Europe, he put the rectory as well at our disposal. Headcjuarters were thus established within a few miles of the point where we desired to work, an arrangement which was very economical of time. "The reef which stretches along the whole hundred miles of the eastern coast of Andros is particularly luxuriant in development at points near the channels or 'bights' which divide the island into three main portions. At Little Golding Cay oft' Middle Bight, for example, a.

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