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of gardens and experimental plantations, and this, together with other 

 reasons, caused the postponement of the movement. 



During the autumn of 1902 Mr. William Fawcett, the director of 

 the public gardens and plantations of the island, was in New York, 

 together with Sir Daniel Morris, the imperial commissioner of agricul- 

 ture for the British West Indies, and at that time the matter was 

 discussed again with them, and this gave an emphasis to the recon- 

 sideration of earlier plans, for both nursery and laboratory. The 

 decision of the colonial government to rent Cinchona, and transfer 

 most of the work there carried on to other plantations, was reached 



A Laboratory at the Tropical Station, Cinchona, Jamaica. 



only last summer, and as it was feared in Jamaica that the property 

 might be diverted from its most desirable purposes, I concluded, after 

 consultation with a number of persons interested, to assume the rental 

 of the property, with the idea of carrying out both plans if possible. 

 Dr. MacDougal immediately went to Jamaica, after Professor Under- 

 wood's return, and made the necessary arrangements for the lease and 

 for the caretaking of the property. I communicated this action by 

 mail to over sixty of the botanists and horticulturists of this country 

 and Europe, who expressed the most enthusiastic appreciation of the 

 scheme. My action was approved by the scientific directors of the 

 New York Botanical Garden in October, and arrangements have since 



