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We have brought back with 
collections of museum 
\f separate 
and herbacum specimens, see ede. fruit 
- living aaa ee over 5000 individual specimens, 
which abou e-half are fungi, collected by Dr. Seaver, 
ee report is ene appended. 
Respectfully submitted, 
N. L, Britton. 
Director-in-Chief. 
MYCOLOGICAL WORK IN PORTO RICO AND THE 
VIRGIN ISLANDS 
Dr. N. L. Britton, Director-in-Chief: 
of the Insular Government and with 
your permission, on January 20, I sailed on the 
to accompany you logist in charge of special work 
as “Techno 
on fungi of Porto Rico’’ later extended to include the Virgin 
Islands. 
Str:-—At the request 
Prebably more mycological work has been done in anes 
Rico than in any other island of the American tropics. 
mary of this work appeared in 1918 in the form of a Gen ae 
of the fungi by J. A. Stevenson at that time connected with the 
oe station.! 
For e time past a revision and extension of this work has 
been ae way by the wri 
r 
is stay there made a critical study of the ans material 
collected by Potes H. He yy i) and 2 ”. Olive i 
Porto Rico in1916. Asa a is fi 
knowledge of die fungi of his home land, Mr. Chardon is un- 
Through the efforts of Mr. Chardon and Mr. Rafael Menendez 
R : 
the expenses of a trip to Porto Rico in company with yourself 
1A check ee a Porto Rican fungi and a host index. Jour. Dept. Agr. 
Porto Rico 2: . 3. 1918. 
