varieties of Caribbean plants new to botanical science. During his tenure the number of species at the garden increased from 348 to over 3,000. He was a correspondent of Sir Joseph Banks, through whom he contributed to the Royal Society in 1789 an account of a bituminous lake on St. Vincent, which was afterwards published in the Philosophical Transactions for that year. In January 1791 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, proposed by Daniel Rutherford, John Walker and William Wright. In the same year he went into Guiana on a botanising expedition; the plants he obtained being sent to Banks, are now in the herbarium of the British Museum. He was also elected to the American Philosophical Society in that year. The Society of Arts voted him a silver medal in 1798 for a paper upon the plants in the garden at St Vincent. He contemplated the production of a flora of the Caribbean islands, some sheets of which he sent to Banks; but this project was never carried out. He resigned his post in July 1811, and died on 8 September in the same year (the Royal Society of Edinburgh gives his date of death as 10 May 1811). Anderson was succeeded as superintendent by his friend, the surgeon William Lochhead. The breadfruit On 23 January 1793, Dr. Anderson informed Sir Joseph Banks of Captain William Bligh's arrival on HMS Providence with 'about 100 of the Breadfruit' from Tahiti. To Anderson's frustration, 'partiality' for the botanic gardens at Jamaica ensured that he was left with 'the smallest and most sickly looking plants'; the 'largest and most healthy' sent north to the establishments at Liguanea and Bath. Although William Bligh has been credited for the introduction of Breadfruit in the Caribbean, records compiled by the Reverend Lansdown Guilding suggest that Anderson had received specimens - 'previous to thee arrival of the Providence' - when 'a young plant... was sent to the Garden' from French naturalists in Martinique. In the Journal of Henrietta Liston (1800), the Breadfruit is recorded at St. Vincent 'in great abundance & perfection', Anderson being 'the only person' on the Island who had 'as yet obliged his slaves' to eat it. Relations with St. Vincent's Governors According to Anderson's Account, relations with the Island's authorities were periodically tempestuous. His first altercation occurred with Governor Edmund Lincoln, who administered St. Vincent between 1783