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the commission becomes most adequately representative of American 
botanists. ‘The institutional and botanical distribution of the com- 
missioners is most happy. Their judgment will be competent to 
include every facility sought for in tropical surroundings, and their 
report will be regarded as final both as to the location and the advan- 
tages of a tropical laboratory. The assured cooperation of British 
botanists through a commissioner, and through liberal offers of 
facilities in case the station is established in British possessions, 
insures for the laboratory an international character. 
