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and fruit, being of especial interest. Our last afternoon in 
Porto Rico was spent at the Insular Agricultural Experiment 
Station at Rio Piedras, studying the plantations there under 
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1304 field numbers. e were everywhere received with the 
sular Experiment Station, who accompanied us on several days 
in the field and gave us the advantage of their knowledge of 
fungi, to Professor and Mrs. F S. Earle of Aguirre, who were 
also in the field with us on several occasions, recalling former 
association with them at the Garden, to Mr. Harold I. Sewell of 
Naguabo, recalling former aid when we explored that region in 
1914, and to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hartzell at Condado. 
ctfully Submitted, 
N.L.B 
ra or N, 
Director-in-Chief. 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT 
Dr. Francis W. Pennell, Curator of Plants at the Academy 
of Natural ee of Philadelphia and until recently Associate 
Curator of this institution, and Mr. Ellsworth P. Killip, Aid in 
her husband during the first half of thie course. The party will 
land at Buenaventura, on the west coast of Colombia, and 
proceed by rail to Cali in the Cauca valley. There they will 
Popayén 
where collections will be made on some peak of the central Auides 
and on Cerro Munchique on the western Andes. From thence 
the expedition will work north through the beautiful Cauca 
