. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. , there should be anythinglike a cold current forcing its way up-hill into the Straits of Florida, ashas been asserted on theoretical grounds. The channel at Gun Keycan only discharge the surplus by having a great velocity. Mr. Garman, who as usual accompanied me, remained in the WestIndies, after we left the Blake at Barbadoes, for the purpose of makingcollections of Reptiles and Fishes, with a view of throwing additionallight on the former connections of the islands, as I have here attemptedto trace it. One of the most inter
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. , there should be anythinglike a cold current forcing its way up-hill into the Straits of Florida, ashas been asserted on theoretical grounds. The channel at Gun Keycan only discharge the surplus by having a great velocity. Mr. Garman, who as usual accompanied me, remained in the WestIndies, after we left the Blake at Barbadoes, for the purpose of makingcollections of Reptiles and Fishes, with a view of throwing additionallight on the former connections of the islands, as I have here attemptedto trace it. One of the most interesting of the Reptiles we collected is agigantic land tortoise, found at Porto Rico, differing only in size fromthe land turtle still found on Trinidad and adjoining parts of SouthAmerica. It is closely allied to the gigantic turtles of the (Jallopagos,and to the fossil land turtles, of which fragments have been describedViy the late Professor Wynian. These were collected by Mr. A. Juliuuat Sombrero, in the phosphate bods of the island. Cajibeidue, May 10, 1871)..
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