2 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



descriptions appear between numbers 45022 and 46718. An outline 

 map has been prepared giving Mr. Meyer's routes of travel during the 

 13 3^ears of his Avork as an agricultural explorer (figs. 1 and 2) . In ad- 

 dition to the living plant material which Mr. Meyer collected, there 

 are to his credit in the collection of this office 1,740 photographs, which 

 constitute a unique set of illustrations of the agriculture of the Chinese, 

 in particular portraying the crop plants upon which this remark- 

 able people has lived for 40 centuries. Those of them which illus- 



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Fig. 1. — Map of Rust^ia and Turkestan, showing- the agi-icultural explorations of Frank N. 

 Meyer. Between 1909 and 1912 Mr. Meyer traveled extensively in these countries 

 hunting for new fruits, forage plants, and other crops for trial in the United States. 

 His second journey to this region, between 1913 and 1915, was less extensive ; on this 

 trip only the northern portion of the region above shown was covered. 



trate plants destined to become widely used in this country will 

 doubtless come to be published as historic evidences of their first dis- 

 covery. As accounts of Mr. Meyer's life have been published else- 

 where (see Asia for January, 1921 ; The Journal of Heredity for 

 June, 1919, and April, 1920; The National Geographic Magazine for 

 July, 1919; and De Aarde en haar Volken, January to April, and 

 July and August, 1919), and as plants which he introduced will 

 record better than words can his accomplishments, it would hardly 



