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REPORT OF THE RESIDENT INVESTIGATOR 
(ECONOMIC PLANTS) FOR 1941 
To THE Director: 
I herewith submit a report of the activities of the Resident 
Investigator for Economic Plants for 1941. With the consent of 
the Garden, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden-Long Island Uni- 
versity Course (B-15, 16), in Economic Plants, was omitted 
during the 1940-1941 academic year. Several trips were made 
to the Botanic Garden Conservatories and Grounds in general 
and to the Herb and Medicinal section in particular. The Resi- 
dent Investigator served as guide on these trips with groups of 
students from the College of Arts and Sciences and from the Col- 
lege of Pharmacy of Long Island University separately. 
During the summer of 1941, I had the opportunity of visiting 
many of the botanic gardens west of the Mississippi river. This 
experience was most illuminating and helpful to me in realizing 
the great difference in the purposes of many of these institutions 
and in the tremendous ecological diversity of their locations and 
topographies. A brief study of the California Mission Gardens 
was also delightful and instructive. The privilege of conducting 
brief research projects at several of the marine biological research 
laboratories, especially the Scripps Institution of Oceanography 
at La Jolla, California, and at the oceanographic laboratories of 
the University of Washington at Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, 
Puget Sound, Washington, was appreciated. The algae are un- 
usually abundant in this area where there are at least five genera 
of green algae, ten genera of brown algae, and sixteen genera of 
red algae that are readily available for study. The reclaiming of 
a limestone quarry on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and 
its development into a beautiful botanic garden known as Butch- 
art’s Garden is a commendable idea and accomplishment which 
commercial concerns with a consideration for the destruction of 
natural beauty might well emulate. 
Reports on research, lectures, radio talks and publications are 
given elsewhere in this annual report under their respective 
captions. 
Respectfully submitted, 
RaLpH H. CHENEY, 
Resident Investigator (Economic Plants). 
