'obtained [the true Cinnamon]', then carried on a frigate ferrying 'valuable plants' from the Île de France to St. Domingo. As per the nationality of Anderson's correspondents, approximately three, eight, eight and sixteen per cent of individuals were American, Spanish, Dutch, and left unspecified respectively. The remaining sixty-five per cent were French; 'the most valuable correspondents [in the Caribbean Archipelago being] those from the French colonies'. Given the Bourbon Monarchy's fundamentally more efficient paradigm of inter-continental plant transfer, French Caribbean islands 'possessed many more' exotic foods, botanic 'necessities, and comforts of life', which Anderson attempted to import for his Garden at St. Vincent. His Account indicates that without adequate British support for colonial botany, the Superintendent was obliged to seek out French contacts from St. Domingue, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Lucia and French Guiana for rare plant species. Some of Anderson's most notable French contacts included the Marquis de Bouillé François Claude Amour de Chariol and Jean-Baptiste Victor Hughes. In 1802, Anderson sent 'some boxes, with plants [he] conceived were not [at Cayenne]' to Hughes in return for the True Nutmeg. Caribbean Explorations Anderson travelled extensively during his time on St. Vincent. Given the Island's southerly location and restrictions imposed on foreign visitors by Spanish Governors in South America, he periodically launched expeditions to the colonies of Trinidad and Dutch Guiana, including Berbice, Demerary and Essequibo. Notable voyages to the latter colonies were undertaken in 1791, when Anderson travelled with his botanical assistant William Lochhead on a small schooner to examine its plants; the colonies 'having been very little visited by naturalists', with their 'interior parts' generally considered impenetrable. Anderson arrived at Barbadoes on the 6th of March in order to collect information about navigating Guiana's 'low and dangerous coast' before reaching the mouth of the River Demerary on the 19th. As per his Account, he was met with 'a number of the most beautiful and rare shrubs as well as herbaceous plants nowhere else found'. By June Anderson and Lochhead had returned to the mouth, later liaising with the nephew of the Dutch anatomist Bernhard Siegfried Albinus and Mr. Cummings, an unidentified 'Scotchman by birth'. They returned to St. Vincent with a number of new plants that were beyond Anderson's 'most sanguine expectations'. Communications to the Royal Society indicate that Anderson also embarked on an excursion to Trinidad in 1789 with the intention of exploring a bituminous lake then known