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Rio Piedras upon the invitation of Mr. J. R. Johnston, pathologist 
of the station, a valued correspondent of the Garden, who has 
made collections of Porto Rican plants for us and will continue 
his botanical studies. Mr. Crawley, director of this important 
institution, also assured me of his interest in our work met 
Mrs. Britton and Miss Marble at ee on March 30; they 
had made additional collections about Coamo Spr 
The establishment of a ioe m et eer pereran 
College at Ma: ayagiiez, u under the able direction of Professor F. L. 
Stevens, adjoining the pera Experiment Station, has 
made this city the insular center of information about plants. 
We remained there until April 10, making collections in western 
Porto Rico, accompanied most of the time by Mr. W. E. Hess, 
plant propagator of the Experiment Station, ee detailed for 
this service by the director, Mr. May, and part of the tim 
Professor Stevens, who is making a special mire of the pra 
ungi. Our trips included a visit to the coast at Joyada, w 
we saw the great groves of the hat palm, ‘palma de eee 
(Inodes causiarum) and the hand-weaving of the Porto Rican 
hats. 
days’ excursion to the mountains at Maricao and the 
Monte Alegrillo proved fertile in results botanically, for 281 
species were collected besides the many fungi taken by Professor 
Stevens, and here we had another fine experience in the primaeval 
forest dominated by Acrista monticola. A number of plants 
endemic in Porto Rico grow only in this interesting region. 
Professor Stevens and I agreed that this was the best site for a 
mountain biological station and then events moved rapidly, 
f t a meeting of the Trustees of the University which he 
attended a few days later, he was awarded a preliminary appro- 
priation for such a station, and at a fortunate interview with Mr. 
Wilson, Commissioner of the Interior at Mayagiiez, he was 
promised the necessary land; this is surely unparalleled rapidity 
in the establishment of a scientific station, which cannot fail to 
add greatly to botanical, horticultural and agricultural knowledge 
in Porto Rico; that our northern institutions will cordially 
codéperate with Professor Stevens in its use and development goes 
