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Botanical Garden, numbering and naming our collections. In 
the difficult work of naming the host plants we depended largely 
on the wide knowledge of West Indian plants possessed by Mr. 
Percy Wilson, of the New York Botanical Garden. Director 
Britton and Dr. Small, also of the staff of the New York Botan- 
ical Garden, assisted us materially in such determinations. Our 
grass hosts were sent for determination to Professor A. 5. Hitch- 
cock, of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, the Smuts to Dr. 
Clinton of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, and 
the Rusts to Professor Arthur, of Purdue University. After the 
final determination of fungi and host plants, it would be desirable, 
if possible, to prepare sets for distribution, as well as for incor- 
poration in our own and other cryptogamic herbaria. 
Time only will enable us thoroughly to appreciate the scientific 
value of such a trip, aside from its general stimulating influence. 
It may be here pointed out, however, that in addition to discov- 
ering a number of forms new to science, we have by germination 
studies made clearer the life histories of quite a number of others, 
particularly among the rust fungi. It is planned to publish some 
of these results in the near future. Various other important 
biological problems have been given impetus, as, for example, 
the economic problem as to whether dusting with finely pow- 
dered fungicides and insecticides will be more efficient and more 
economical than spraying, in the control of certain plant dis- 
eases. 
Epcar W. OLive, 
Curator of Public Instruction. 
NOTES 
Spring Inspection—The second annual spring inspection of 
the Garden by trustees, members, and invited guests was held on 
Tuesday, May 9, from 3:30 until 5 o’clock. Guests assembled 
at the laboratory building and passed in groups of thirty or forty 
through the plant houses, thence viewing, in order, the new sec- 
tions of the building and plant houses under construction, the 
experimental plot and new site of the children’s gardens, the 
