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  ANNUAL 
  REPORT 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
  1922. 
  

  

  FLORA 
  OF 
  THE 
  PHILIPPINE 
  ISLANDS. 
  

  

  At 
  the 
  request 
  of 
  Gen. 
  Leonard 
  Wood, 
  Governor 
  General 
  of 
  the 
  

   Philippine 
  Islands, 
  a 
  plan 
  for 
  the 
  preparation 
  of 
  a 
  flora 
  of 
  the 
  

   Philippine 
  Islands 
  was 
  drawn 
  up 
  by 
  the 
  Institution, 
  together 
  with 
  

   an 
  estimate 
  of 
  the 
  cost. 
  This 
  work, 
  which 
  it 
  is 
  proposed 
  will 
  be 
  

   accomplished 
  through 
  cooperation 
  of 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution 
  

   with 
  the 
  Philippine 
  Government, 
  will 
  be 
  of 
  the 
  greatest 
  importance 
  

   to 
  the 
  agricultural 
  interests, 
  and, 
  since 
  the 
  prosperity 
  of 
  the 
  Phil- 
  

   ippines 
  is 
  primarily 
  dependent 
  on 
  agriculture, 
  to 
  the 
  islands 
  them- 
  

   selves. 
  In 
  addition 
  to 
  these 
  material 
  benefits, 
  such 
  a 
  flora 
  would 
  be 
  

   of 
  great 
  value 
  to 
  science, 
  and 
  a 
  large 
  number 
  of 
  specimens 
  of 
  rare 
  

   and 
  valuable 
  plants 
  from 
  the 
  Philippines 
  would 
  come 
  to 
  the 
  National 
  

   Herbarium 
  as 
  a 
  result 
  of 
  its 
  preparation. 
  

  

  At 
  the 
  close 
  of 
  the 
  fiscal 
  year 
  funds 
  had 
  not 
  been 
  appropriated 
  

   for 
  beginning 
  the 
  work. 
  

  

  BAIRD 
  MEMORIAL 
  COMMITTEE. 
  

  

  To 
  celebrate 
  the 
  centenary 
  of 
  the 
  birth 
  of 
  Spencer 
  Fullerton 
  

   Baird, 
  second 
  secretary 
  of 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution, 
  February 
  

   3, 
  1923, 
  there 
  was 
  formed 
  early 
  in 
  1922 
  the 
  Baird 
  Memorial 
  Com- 
  

   mittee. 
  It 
  was 
  decided 
  at 
  a 
  preliminary 
  meeting 
  that 
  a 
  public 
  

   meeting 
  should 
  be 
  held 
  in 
  Washington 
  on 
  February 
  3, 
  1923, 
  at 
  which 
  

   addresses 
  would 
  be 
  delivered 
  and 
  announcements 
  made 
  of 
  the 
  form 
  

   of 
  memorial 
  or 
  memorials 
  that 
  had 
  been 
  decided 
  upon, 
  and 
  that 
  

   wreaths 
  should 
  be 
  placed 
  on 
  the 
  grave 
  of 
  Baird 
  in 
  Oak 
  Hill 
  Ceme- 
  

   tery, 
  the 
  bust 
  of 
  Baird 
  in 
  the 
  American 
  Museum 
  of 
  Natural 
  History 
  

   in 
  New 
  York 
  City, 
  the 
  Baird 
  memorial 
  bowlder 
  of 
  the 
  American 
  

   Fisheries 
  Society 
  at 
  Woods 
  Hole, 
  and 
  the 
  Baird 
  memorial 
  tablet 
  

   at 
  the 
  Bureau 
  of 
  Fisheries 
  in 
  Washington. 
  

  

  The 
  form 
  which 
  the 
  memorial 
  to 
  Professor 
  Baird 
  should 
  take 
  was 
  

   not 
  definitely 
  decided 
  upon, 
  several 
  plans 
  having 
  been 
  considered. 
  

   Among 
  these 
  were 
  a 
  bust 
  or 
  tablet 
  to 
  be 
  erected 
  in 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  

   grounds, 
  the 
  establishment 
  of 
  a 
  Baird 
  memorial 
  medal 
  to 
  be 
  awarded 
  

   for 
  specially 
  meritorious 
  work 
  in 
  science, 
  the 
  publication 
  of 
  a 
  memo- 
  

   rial 
  volume 
  of 
  original 
  scientific 
  papers 
  by 
  Baird's 
  associates 
  or 
  fol- 
  

   lowers, 
  and 
  a 
  fisheries 
  exhibit, 
  preferably 
  a 
  museum. 
  

  

  DEVELOPMENT 
  OF 
  MULTIPLE-CHARGE 
  ROCKET. 
  

  

  The 
  development 
  of 
  a 
  model 
  multiple-charge 
  rocket, 
  mentioned 
  

   in 
  previous 
  reports, 
  for 
  the 
  purpose 
  of 
  demonstrating 
  the 
  principle, 
  

   is 
  being 
  continued 
  by 
  Prof. 
  Robert 
  H. 
  Goddard, 
  of 
  Clark 
  University, 
  

   under 
  a 
  grant 
  from 
  the 
  Hodgkins 
  fund. 
  

  

  The 
  specific 
  work 
  of 
  the 
  past 
  year 
  has 
  been 
  the 
  development 
  and 
  

   test 
  of 
  certain 
  new 
  features 
  which 
  will 
  increase 
  considerably 
  the 
  

  

  