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within four or five hours' walk from Cinchona^, and they thus offer the 

 investigator very diverse specific and vegetational types within easy 

 reach of the station. Any one of them also could be made a substation 

 at which an investigator resident at Cinchona could carry on physiolog- 



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ical or climatological work. Indeed, the variety of conditions available 

 is far greater than has been indicated. Within half a day's ride from 

 Cinchona a botanist can reach the steaming tropical lowlands of the 

 north side of the island, the warm valleys and dry ridges of the south- 

 ern slopes, and even the hot plains, coastal deserts, mangrove swamps 

 and coral reefs of the south shore. 



Advantages of Cinchona as a Tropical Station 



It will make clear the unusual fitness of Cinchona as a tropical sta- 

 tion if we here summarize its various advantages of location, surround- 

 ings, equipment and accessibility. 



