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peculiar sky line ; abundant material of this palm was secured 

 both in the living state and for museum purposes, as well as 

 specimens of a gigantic bromeliad which grew on the rocks about 

 it, and many specimens of other interesting species. 



The specimens secured by the expedition, including living 

 plants, seeds, and museum and herbarium specimens, aggregate 

 1,456 collection numbers of land plants, averaging three or four 

 specimens to a number, and 231 collection numbers of algae, 

 over 6,000 specimens in all ; the duplicates will mostly be dis- 

 tributed to the U. S. National Museum, and to the Buffalo 

 Botanic Garden. Our thanks are gratefully tendered to Hon. 

 Beekman Winthrop, Governor of Porto Rico, and to Admiral 

 Dunlap, U. S. N., Commandant of the Naval Station at San Juan, 

 for favors received, and for their kindly interest in our work. 

 Respectfully submitted, 



N. L. Britton, 

 Director-in-Chief. 



NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENTS. 



Dr. P. A. Rydberg, of the Garden staff, has been devoting 

 three weeks to studies in the United States National Herbarium 

 at Washington. 



Mr. William R. Maxon, of the United States National Herbar- 

 ium, sailed from New York on March 31, to spend two months 

 in making botanical collections in Costa Rica in behalf of the 

 Garden. 



Dr. Duncan S. Johnson, associate professor of botany in 

 Johns Hopkins University, sailed for Jamacia on April 5 with the 

 intention of devoting two months to studies at the tropical labora- 

 tory of the Garden at Cinchona. 



Dr. William Trelease, director of the Missouri Botanical 

 Garden, spent two days with us during the latter part of April, 

 examining our collections of certain groups of plants in which he 

 is especially interested and arranging for the exchange of living 

 specimens. 



Dr. D. T. MacDougal, director of the department of botanical 



