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The equipment at Cinchona has been increased lately by the 
addition of new chairs, stools, and Rochester lamps for the labora- 
(ON y and of a cookstove, mattresses, and china for the residence. 
These articles have been given by parties from the Desert 
Laboratory and from the Johns Hopkins University that have 
recently visited Cinchona. 
During this, the writer’s third visit to Cinchona, he has become 
still more convinced of the peculiarly advantageous location of 
Cinchona as a tropical botanical laboratory. It not only offers 
a laboratory in a stimulating climate, within half a day’s ride of 
a varied montane rain forest, of steaming lowland valleys, and 
of dry coastal deserts; butit is also located in an island with 
astable government, good roads, an English-speaking population, 
and within four and a half days from New York, and nearby 
Atlantic ports. 
Duncan S. JOHNSON. 
Jouns Hopkins UNIVERSITY. 
ORGANIZATION MEETING, NORTHERN NUT- 
GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION. 
A meeting was held in the museum building on November 17, 
for the purpose of organizing an association devoted to the in- 
terests of nut-growing. The meeting was called to order shortly 
after 2 P.M. by Dr. N. L. Britton, who welcomed those present 
and wished them success in their undertaking. During his re- 
marks he referred to a recent visit to Cuba, where he succeeded 
in collecting nuts of the Cuban walnut, Juglans insularis Griseb. 
Specimens of these were exhibited, and some of them presented 
to Dr. R. T. Morris for his collection of edible nuts of the world, 
deposited at Cornell University. 
Dr. W. C. Deming was made chairman of the meeting, and a 
temporary secretary waselected. The chairman read a number of 
letters from various parts of the country, expressing an active 
interest in the formation of an organization such as was proposed. 
A committee of three was appointed by the chair to draft a 
constitution. This committee, consisting of Mr. John Craig, 
