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Panama. Owing to the short time available for this work, very little 

 collecting was done outside the Zone. While these collections have 

 been examined only in a preliminary way, enough has been done to 

 make it evident that there are some distinct differences in the faunas 

 of the two sides of the Isthmus. 



Professor Henry Pittier. of the Department of Agriculture, who 

 has had charge of the general botanical collecting for the survey since 

 its inception in 1910, remained in the field to continue his work. 

 especially the collecting of ferns and lower cryptogams, from May, 

 1912, throughout that year. An anticipated trip to the Darien country 

 was postponed on account of an accident to the only steamer plying 

 between Panama and the ports of Darien, which forced Professor 

 Pittier to remain in Culebra until January 23, 1912. A little later he 

 secured passage to Darien where he explored the Cugra River and 

 the Sambu Valley near Garachine Point. 



Following the completion of his trips in south Darien and to 

 Chiriqui, he went to Venezuela, whence he will return to the United 

 States about April, 1913. 



BOTANICAL OBSERVATIONS BY DR. J. N. ROSE IN EUROPE AND 



IN KANSAS 



Dr. J. N. Rose, Associate in Botany, U. S. National Museum, at 

 present detailed to the Carnegie Institution for the purpose of mak- 

 ing an exhaustive study of the Cactaceae of America, spent several 

 months visiting the botanical gardens and institutions of Europe, and 

 making preliminary arrangements for various exchanges. Among 

 the places visited were the Kew Gardens, the Jardin des Plantes 

 at Paris, the Conservatory and Botanical Garden at Geneva, the 

 Royal Botanical Gardens at Munich and P>erlin, and the Hanbury 

 Botanic Garden in northern Italy. This last is a private garden 

 belonging to Lady Katherine Hanbury and known as the Hortus 

 Mortolensis. It lies on the shore of the Mediterranean in the little 

 Italian village of La Mortola, about half way between the towns of 

 Ventimiglia, Italy, and Mentone, France, in the most beautiful part 

 of the Riviera, and during- the winter and spring is the main feature 

 of interest in all that region. Its area comprises 112 acres. The 

 most broken and rugged parts are allowed to grow wild ; some of the 

 hills being covered by groves of native pines which suggest the 

 hemlocks in the New York Botanical Garden. The other parts of 

 the grounds have been beautifully terraced with convenient walks 

 and stone steps, from which can be seen, through vistas here and 



