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trip. As mentioned in my last annual report, Dr. J. A. 

 Shafer was sent to northeastern Cuba in January and col- 

 lected plants and specimens there until early in May; Dr. 

 Shafer visited, among other regions, some of the islands and 

 cays laying off the coast of northern Cuba, and made the 

 important discovery that a considerable number of plants, 

 hitherto known only from the Bahama Islands, existon these 

 islands of Cuba; his general collections were also very 

 large. Mr. W. W. Eggleston, a student of the Garden, 

 spent a month in the spring and another month in the au- 

 tumn in western Kentucky and discovered there a number of 

 species not hitherto known to grow so far north or east. 

 Mr. Percy Wilson, Administrative Assistant, was sent to 

 the Bahamas early in May and spent a month in exploring 

 the islands of the Cay Sal Bank, in order to make our ex- 

 ploration of the Bahamas more complete. Dr. H. H. 

 Rusby, Honorary Curator of the Economic Collections, 

 obtained a large number of valuable specimens for the 

 economic museum during his trip to the Pacific coast during 

 the summer. In October, Mr. Norman Taylor, an Assistant 

 Curator, proceeded to the eastern part of the island of 

 Santo Domingo, an island from which we have as yet very 

 few specimens, and devoted two months to exploring there; 

 he has just returned with an important collection. Dr. J. A. 

 Shafer was sent again to northern Cuba in September and 

 is still at work there. Late in November, Dr. Marshall A. 

 Howe was detailed for the purpose of making a study of the 

 algae of Panama, and is expected to return within a few 

 days; letters indicating that his work has been successful, 

 although the flora of the western ocean at this point was 

 meagre in species, apparently owing to the great rise and 

 fall of the tides, but on the Colon side of the isthmus a 

 diversified algal flora was found similar to that of the West 

 Indian waters. Dr. W. A. Murrill, Assistant Director, 

 proceeded to southern Mexico in December for the purpose 

 of obtaining additional information and specimens con- 

 cerning tropical American fungi; letters received from him 



