Following in Darwin's footsteps...

three scientists chart an island's flora. Bill Cary from Lower Hudson Online reports:Combining a mix of old-fashioned plant collection techniques from the days of Charles Darwin with state-of-the-art Web technology, three scientists from the Lower Hudson Valley have just returned from a 10-day trip to the Caribbean that allowed them to map out the complete flora of the island of Saba. They collected about 1,000 specimens, including mosses and lichens, on the 5-square-mile island in the Netherlands Antilles and created a Web site with photos and descriptions of each plant. It's the first such comprehensive plant catalog for a Caribbean island. Read the full piece here.

Exactly the kind of thing we aim to do with Beagle.