Tropical Forests of the Caribbean

THE Spaniard Cortez is known as a brave man, with an indomitable spirit and an almost inhuman quality of endurance. The American Tom Gill, more than four hundred years later, in adventuring the survey of the tropical forests of the Caribbean, required a very different kind of courage, and found a very different world, which was traversed in a very different manner. After reading Mr. Gill's book, the reader will reflect upon what the condition may be when another four hundred years have passed, but at present Mr. Gill, in association with the Charles Lathrop Pack Forestry Trust, has presented us with an interesting and informative up-to-date account of these forests.Tropical Forests of the Caribbean.By Tom Gill. (Published by the Tropical Plant Research Foundation in co-operation with the Charles Lathrop Pack Forestry Trust.) Pp. xix + 318 + 81 plates. (Yonkers, N.Y.: Tropical Plant Research Foundation, 1931.)