80 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [JANUARY 
blocks, were destroyed. The specimens of domestic woods were discolored 
by smoke but not otherwise injured. Many tools and much apparatus, the 
greater part of which can be replaced on short notice, were totally destroyed. 
The technological laboratory was badly injured, but much of the machinery 
can be repaired. One of the heaviest losses was the complete data, covering 
six months’ work by an expert and two assistants in the technological labora- 
tory, where in cooperation with the Bureau of Forestry a study is being made 
on moisture and volatile oil in relation to the strength of timber. A large 
force of men is already at work in repairing the interior of the building and 
all classes will be resumed without interruption at the opening of the term on 
January 9. 
THE NEw YorK BoranicaL GARDEN has secured a lease of the group 
of buildings at the Cinchona Botanical Garden belonging to the Colonial Gov- 
ernment of Jamaica and will maintain them as a botanical laboratory under 
an agreement with the Colonial Government, and with the cooperation of the 
Department of Public Gardens and Plantations of Jamaica. Sufficient land 
for experimental purposes and for a nursery is included in the leasehold privi- 
leges. The buildings include a residence known as Bellevue House, three 
laboratories, two ranges of glass, and small buildings suitable for lodging- 
Investigators are there offered the use of tables in the laboratory buildings; 
lodging in Bellevue House or in one of the other buildings at Cinchona; the 
use of land for experimental purposes ; privileges to study the plantations at 
Cinchona, and also those at Hope and Castleton Gardens; privilege to consult 
the botanical library of the Department of Public Gardens and Plantations 
at Hope Gardens, and to take books therefrom to Cinchona under such con- 
ditions as may be imposed by the Director of Public Gardens and Plantations; 
easy access to an immense number of indigenous species in the primitive for- 
ests adjacent to Cinchona. 
All persons who may apply for permission to study at Cinchona must 
submit such evidence as the Director-in-Chief of the New York Botanical 
Garden may require that they are competent to pursue investigations t 
advantage. While in residence at Cinchona they will be under the super 
vision of the Hon. William Fawcett, Director of Public Gardens and Planta- 
tions, to whose interest and advice the establishment of this American tropical 
laboratory is largely due. A laboratory fee, payable to the New York Botanical 
Garden, will be required of persons granted the above privileges. 
Jpon approval by the Scientific Directors of the New York Botanical 
Garden, any other institution, society, or individual, may be assigned the us€ 
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of a table at Cinchona by the payment of $100 annually, which will entitle : 
them to nominate investigators without the payment of fees; but not more thaD 
one person may be granted the use of any such table at the same time. The 
necessary expenses for a month’s residence at Cinchona, including traveling 
€xpenses to and from ports on the Atlantic seaboard of the United States, are 
from $140 to $200; for two months’ residence $160 to $230. 
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