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It so happened that additional knowledge of the flora and plant 
products of the island Guam is much needed at ‘the present time 
sioned Mr. Peter Nelson, of the Guam Agricultural Experiment 
Station, to make as complete a collection as is possible of the 
plants of Guam, eu vacation time for this purpose, and 
app ane a grant of $50 from the Charles Budd Robinson Fund 
to nexpenees for field assistance. Mr. Nelson will collect several 
, one of which will be incorporated in the museum 
colleen at Manila, one set returned to the Guam Experiment 
tation, and the other sets sent to New York, one of these to be 
incorporated in our own museum collections and the others dis- 
tributed to our correspondents. Representation of the plants of 
uam in museums has hitherto been very scanty, and it is antici- 
pated that much good will result from the expenditure of this 
small amount. 
The data obtained by Dr. Robinson relative to the flora of 
Amboina and its relation to that of the Philippine Islands were, 
fortunately, in such good form as to be utilized by Mr. Merrill 
for use in an exceedingly valuable document, entitled, “An In- 
terpretation of Buepee Herbarium Amboinense,”’ published 
the Philippine B copies of which have recently 
reached us, and it is a great sauslacuon to know that the scien- 
tific results of the expedition during which our lamented asso- 
ciate lost his life have been given to the wor 
N. L. Britton. 
INJURY TO EVERGREENS 
Recent weather conditions have been the cause of considerable 
injury to certain evergreens at the Garden. These conditions, 
as found in the weather pe of the Garden, are as follows: 
From a temperature of —6° on February 5 there was a rise on 
- folowing day to about i and a still further advance 
e 7th, reaching 54° at about 3 P.M. It then dropped to 
