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the Garden owing to his new sphere of work, but arrangements 
have been made with his mother, Mrs. Henry Parsons, for the 
teaching of students who may apply for instruction at one of the 
school gardens under her charge in the Park Department of 
Manhatta: In recognition of this cooperation Mrs. Parsons 
s given the title Honorary Advisor in School Gardening 
Instruction at ie June meeting of the Board of Managers. ! 
Of the fund of about $8,000 raised by subscription by the 
International Children’s School Farm League early in 1917 to 
cover the expenses of gardening a under Mr. Parsons’ 
direction for two years, about $3,000 remains unexpended. 
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THE BOTANY AND PLANT PRODUCTS OF NORTH- 
ERN SOUTH AMERICA* 
cooperative investigation of the flora of northern Sout 
America, which, when carried out in ne should be of highly 
e 
organized by the New York a oe the United States 
National Museum, and the Gray Herbarium of Harvard Uni- 
versity. This investigation is Lene to include the plants 
inhabiting the Guianas, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and 
the adjacent Caribbean islands Tr: aaa Tobago, Margarita, 
i a Art ba. 
gations leading to much needed monographs of important groups 
d to detailed catalogues of floras as yet very inadequately 
known. 
e region contemplated has great diversity of climate, soil, 
and altitude and a corresponding wealth of vegetation. Perhaps 
no area of greater botanical promise has thus far received less 
organized floral investigation. or have the scattered results 
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* Published also in Science, 48: 156. 
