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proximated elsewhere. The plantations representing American 
forests and the pine-barren bogs of New Jersey were most inter- 
esting. To Dr. Diels and Dr. Pilger and all the members of the 
herbarium staff [ am indebted for the great courtesy which was 
shown to me in my examination of the Willdenow and other 
herbarium collections. 
At Paris I was given access to the interesting collections made 
by Michaux, one of the pioneer explorers of eastern America. 
These specimens are housed in the new building in the Jardin des 
Plantes, constructed by means of funds from the Rockefeller 
Foundation. Here I also investigated important collections from 
Brazil, Japan, and northern Africa. Outside in the garden, the 
ancient cedar trees, the small but interesting assemblage of rock 
plants, and the new vivarium are all of worth-while interest. 
In London, [I again visited the rooms of the Linnean Society 
where, with the help of Mr. Savage, I spent some time in looking 
up the original specimens which Linnaeus had obtained from 
eastern United States. The Linnaean herbarium is the most 
valuable collection of pressed plants in the world, and the utmost 
precautions are accordingly taken for its safety. At the British 
Museum of Natural History, I had the pleasure of looking through 
Walter’s herbarium from South Carolina (circa 1780) and 
Plunkenet’s herbarium (still older), and saw also the original 
specimens of /leocharis, which Robert Brown described from 
Australia in 1810. 
I spent a week on the coast of Cornwall, where the planted (and 
sometimes escaped) specimens of Veronica (Lebe), Fuchsia, 
Cordyline, and Araucaria frequently give an almost tropical aspect 
to the scenery, and where the display of heather and gorse is seen 
in unusual brilliance on the whitened china-clay moors north of 
St. Austell. 
Returning to London in late August, I went from there to 
Dublin by way of Holy Head and the Irish Sea. The botanic 
garden at Glasnevin (Dublin), which it was my privilege to visit 
under the guidance of Mr. Besant, is one of the most attractive in 
Europe, and dates back to 1794. | Nowhere have I seen such large 
redwoods and Araucarias, and nowhere was there a more brilliant 
display of Begonias and other colorful border plants. The green- 
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