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NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 
Mr. R. S. Williams, assistant curator, sailed for Colon on 
January 25, expecting to devote several months to botanical 
explorations in the Republic of Panama, a region very imper- 
fectly known botanically. 
Dr. C. B. Robinson, assistant curator since July 1, 1906, left 
New York January 21, for the Philippine Islands. His appoint- 
ment as economic botanist of the Bureau of Science, Manila, was 
noted in the Journa for November 
Mr. F. V. Coville, botanist in charge of the economic collec- 
tions, Bureau of Plant Industry, United States Department of 
Agriculture, spent several days at the Garden early in February 
examining the herbarium. 
Mr. Norman Taylor, who has been a Garden aid for several 
years, was recently appointed custodian of the plantations. 
