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Additional interest in the tropical laboratory of the garden 
at Cinchona, Jamaica, has been evidenced by a larger number 
of students having occupied this station than in any previous 
year, and on account of a movement initiated by representa- 
tives of other institutions to aid in further developing this 
laboratory under a plan approved by the Scientific Directors 
of the Garden; this plan has been transmitted to representa- 
tives of forty-five universities, gardens, and museums, in 
America and England, and contemplates annual contributions 
by them for the support of a resident investigator at Cinchona, 
the contributing institutions to have the right to send students 
or officers there without charge for this privilege. The 
arrangement of the garden with the Government of Jamaica 
and the hearty codperation of that Government renders the 
plan practicable in case a sufficient number of institutions or 
individuals agree to contribute $100 a year, the amount 
required for the successful elaboration of the proposition being 
from $1,500 to $2,000 annually. I propose to report the 
success or failure of this movement at a subsequent meeting. 
The Garden’s rental of Cinchona and its grounds from the 
Jamaican Government at $300 a year has already been of 
great advantage to us in securing plants and specimens, and 
students who have occupied the buildings have carried on 
some important investigations. An account of this work has 
been given by Professor Underwood in our JourRNAL for 
November, 1906. 
Lectures and Demonstrations 
The regular series of Saturday afternoon lectures during 
the spring and autumn have been continued, as reported in 
the JourNnaL for April and for October, and the audiences 
have somewhat increased over those of previous years. 
These lectures have been delivered at 4:30 in the afternoons, 
but it now appears more desirable that they should commence 
earlier and it is proposed that the series for the present year 
be announced for 4 o’cloc 
The lectures and demonstrations commenced last year to 
