Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Harvard University Botany Libraries.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
THE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORIES
16 DIVINITY AVENUE
CAMBRIDGE 38, MASSACHUSETTS
Diary of Dr. H. A. Nicholls of Dominica, B.W.I.
Contents: a report-diary of excursions through
Lesser Antilles from Tobago to Dominica on a survey
of the prevalence of yaws, Dr. Nicholl's speciality.
Includes comments on the customs, botany, zoology
and history of the area by this naturalist.
Dr. Nicholl(s is credited with the discovery of
the Boiling Lake in Dominica; has a mountain and
a parrot named for him. He was a correspondent
of the botanists and gardeners of the area and
supplied stock for the replanting of the St.
Vincent botanical garden when it was reactivated.
He should be given credit for introducing many
of the ornamentals now common in the Windward
Islands. He was on the regular distribution list
for seeds and plants from Kew.
Diary is a gift of his daughter, Miss Magie Nicholls
R. A. Howard 1951