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Panama. Owing to the short time available for this work, very little 
collecting was done outside the Zone. While these collections have 
been examined only in a preliminary way, enough has been done to 
make it evident that there are some distinct differences in the faunas 
of the two sides of the Isthmus. 
Professor Henry Pittier, of the Department of Agriculture, who 
has had charge of the general botanical collecting for the survey since 
its inception in 1910, remained in the field to continue his work, 
especially the collecting of ferns and lower cryptogams, from May, 
1912, throughout that year. An anticipated trip to the Darien country 
was postponed on account of an accident to the only steamer plying 
between Panama and the ports of Darien, which forced Professor 
Pittier to remain in Culebra until January 23, 1912. A little later he 
secured passage to Darien where he explored the Cugra River and 
the Sambu Valley near Garachine Point. 
Following the completion of his trips in south Darien and _ to 
Chiriqui, he went to Venezuela, whence he will return to the United 
States about April, 1913. 
BOTANICAL OBSERVATIONS BY DR. J. N. ROSE IN EUROPE AND 
IN KANSAS 
Dr. J. N. Rose, Associate in Botany, U. S. National Museum, at 
present detailed to the Carnegie Institution for the purpose of mak- 
ing an exhaustive study of the Cactacezee of America, spent several 
months visiting the botanical gardens and institutions of Europe, and 
making preliminary arrangements for various exchanges. Among 
the places visited were the Kew Gardens, the Jardin des Plantes 
at Paris, the Conservatory and Botanical Garden at Geneva, the 
Royal Botanical Gardens at Munich and Berlin, and the Hanbury 
Botanic Garden in northern Italy. This last is a private garden 
belonging to Lady Katherine Hanbury and known as the Hortus 
Mortolensis. It lies on the shore of the Mediterranean in the little 
Italian village of La Mortola, about half way between the towns of 
Ventimiglia, Italy, and Mentone, France, in the most beautiful part 
of the Riviera, and during the winter and spring is the main feature 
of interest in all that region. Its area comprises 112 acres. The 
most broken and rugged parts are allowed to grow wild; some of the 
hills being covered by groves of native pines which suggest the 
hemlocks in the New York Botanical Garden. The other parts of 
the grounds have been beautifully terraced with convenient walks 
and stone steps, from which can be seen, through vistas here and 
