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SOIL SAMPLES

SMITHSONIAN-BREDIN CARIBBEAN EXPEDITION, 1956

[[underlined]] Trinidad [[/underlined]]

1 - 56  Flower bed Bretton Hall Hotel grounds, Port-of-Spain, March 9.

2 - 56  From roadside; lookout point above Zoo near Belvedere Restaurant, Port-of-Spain, March 10.

3 - 56  Simla (Beebe's place) near new butterfly cage, March 12.

[[underlined]] Grenada, March 14 [[/underlined]]

4 - 56  Alongside farm road near lighthouse Point Saline.

5 - 56  Last turn in road before St. George Harbor.

[[underlined]] Tabago Cays, March 17 [[/underlined]]

6 - 56  Above collecting ground, part way up cliff; from agave stand that had slipped down.

[[underlined]] Mustique Island, March 18 [[/underlined]]

7 - 56  From native garden plots.

8 - 56  Near crab holes, northeast beach nearest Pillories Islands.

9 - 56  From alongside fence on way of wild cattle paddock.

10 - 56  From fertilized cotton field.

11 - 56  Near cotton field fence by crab hole; unfertilized sample.

12 - 56  From hillside by cedar tree northwest of house.

13 - 56  Downhill west of residence close to cistern, rich black soil; fertilized?

14 - 56  From north side of cisterns in dry sandy path.

[[underlined]] Bequia, March 19 [[/underlined]]

15 - 56  Hotel Caribee grounds.

16 - 56  Along edge of beach, grounds of private home, between hotel and harbor landing.