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abling me to get in touch with the local conditions as well as for 

 valuable suggestions in regard thereto. I am also under obliga- 

 tions for information concerning Kau to the Hon. George C. 

 Hewitt of Waiohinu, to Mr. John C. Searle of Hilo, and to 

 Messrs. George H. Robertson and W. M. Giffard of Honolulu. 



DESCRIPTION. 



[The technical description of the boundary of the Kau Forest 

 Reserve, prepared by Mr. George F. Wright of the Government 

 Survey, is here omitted, as it is somewhat lengthy and will be 

 published later in this magazine as a part of the proclamation 

 creating the reserve.] 



A public hearing to consider the setting apart of the Kau For- 

 est Reserve has been called by Governor Carter for August i, 

 1906, at the office of the Board of Agriculture and Forestry, in 

 Honolulu. 



Very respectfully, 



Ralph S. Hosmer, 

 Superintendent of Forestry 



PLANT DISEASES. 



Southern California is to have a laboratory and experim.ent sta- 

 tion for the study of diseases of plants. The financial support is 

 to be furnished by the State that the work may be undertaken by 

 the University of California as a part of the activities of its De- 

 partment of Agriculture. The State Commission for the selection 

 of a location for a pathological laboratory and experiment sta- 

 tion — a board consisting of the Governor, President Benjamin Ide 

 Wheeler, of the University, and Professor Ei. J. Wickson, of the 

 chair of agricultural practice in the University, is ready to receive 

 proposals in regard to a site. 



