under the direction . 

 rector of the Laboratories. Mr. R. S. Williams, who has done 

 much field work on behalf of the Garden during the past five 

 years in the Yukon Territory, Bolivia, and the Philippine Islands, 

 has been appointed an Assistant Curator. Mr. C. B. Robinson, 

 who has been a student of the Garden, giving special attention 

 to the study of the Stone-worts, and to the Philippine Island col- 

 lections formed by Mr. Williams, has also been appointed an 

 Assistant Curator. N. L. Britton, 



Director-in-Chief. 



vers," said the philosopher Pascal, " are roads that move, 

 rry us whither we wish to go." In colonial Maryland this 

 ue in a larger degree, perhaps, than in any of the other 

 :s. The main highway of early Maryland was the Chesa- 



and spacious rivers branching a 

 richly supplied and divided int 



egates to the General Assembly from Kent and Anne 



is quite natural, then, that the minds of the citizens should 

 irn to the feasibility of constructing an artificial water-way 

 i the headwaters of the Chesapeake and Delaware bays, 



