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COLLECTION OF NATIVE SEED. 



On Kauai and at Puuwaawaa, Hawaii, as well as at Kahiki- 

 nui, Maui, the writer was enabled to collect seed of some forty- 

 five native species, amounting to over 100 pounds. 



EXCHANGE OF HERBARIUM SPECIMENS. 



For over a year the writer has been in correspondence with, 

 the leading herbaria of Europe, America, and the different Bo- 

 tanic Institutions in the Orient and Australia in regard to the 

 exchange of herbarium specimens. 



At present the Department has exchanged with the Sydney 

 National Herbarium, New South Wales; Botanic Gardens, Pera- 

 denya, Ceylon, India; Botanic Gardens, Buitenzorg, Java; Herb- 

 arium Bureau of Science, Manila, P. L, and Botanic Station,. 

 Mauritius. 



The following institutions have consented to exchange: Paris, 

 Jardine du Plant, Tahitian flora; Imper. Roy. N.'at. Hist. Mu- 

 seum, Vienna, Austria, Samoan material; Herbarium British 

 Museum, London, Fiji material; Botanic Station, Taihoku, For- 

 mosa, Formosan plants ; Berkeley, CaL, Herbarium, California, 

 plants ; New York Bot. Gardens, Bronx Park, West Indian and 

 Central American material ; Botanic Station, Sipbur, near Cal- 

 cutta, Indian plants; Botanic Gardens, Singapore, Malayan 

 plants. 



INVESTIGATION OF STOCK-POISONING PLANTS. 



As soon as the large material of pasture plants, grasses, etc.,, 

 in this herbarium can be worked up, an account will .then be 

 published in popular language, with ample illustrations, de- 

 scribing the obnoxious as well as useful pasture plants occurring 

 in the Territory, so that every ranchman will be enabled to re- 

 cognize a plant as his friend or enemy, and deal with it accord- 

 ingly. 



EUCALYPTUS INVESTIGATION. 



The writer has made a special effort to straighten out the dif- 

 ferent species of Eucalypts growing in the Islands. On Tantalus 

 material from 40 species and varieties was collected and far- 

 warded to Dr. J. H. Maiden, Government Botanist, Sydney, New 

 South Wales, Australia, the Eucalyptus expert, who kindly con- 

 sented to identify the same for the Department. The diagnosis 

 of over 20 species he has sent lately. Of the remaining ones, 

 Dr. Maiden requested more complete material. This has been- 



