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Dr. Britton left for Jamaica on August 25, accompanied by 

 Mrs. Britton and Dr. Underwood. Professor Evans, of Yale 

 University, joined the expedition at Kingston. Collections will 

 be made at high elevations on the mountains about Cinchona, 

 where the tropical laboratory of the Garden is located, and also 

 in the lower and more arid regions of the island, suited to the 

 growth of palms and cacti. The party is expected to return to 

 New York in the latter part of September. 



Mr. A. E. Casse, horticultural director of Les Plantations 

 d' Haiti, spent two days at the Garden during the latter part of 

 August. The plantation is a large one, embracing in the neigh- 

 borhood of one thousand acres, and is located at Bayeux, about 

 eighteen miles to the westward of Cap Haitien, on the north 

 coast of Haiti. Work was first begun there in 190 1, and has 

 progressed rapidly, so that now the area is in excellent condition. 

 Large numbers of cocoa trees and rubber trees have been planted, 

 from which returns are shortly expected. Sugar is also manu- 

 factured to a considerable extent. It was here that the two ex- 

 peditions sent out by the Garden to Haiti made their head-quarters, 

 accepting the kind invitation of Mr. Herrmann, the proprietor, 

 extended through Mr. Casse. A large part of the success of 

 these expeditions was due to the facilities offered by the planta- 

 tion. Mr. Casse is on his way to Europe, and expects to return 

 early in October, stopping a few days at the Garden at that time. 

 il His- 

 an opportunity of seeing in 

 Di-ogress a change in the system of installation of economic botan- 

 cal material. Heretofore the basis of arrangement has been chiefly 

 geographical ; it is now being based upon systematic botany, the 

 Droducts of each family, with the exception of woods, being 

 grouped together. The new cases are made air-proof and are 

 Dermanently closed. The specimens are fastened against a back- 

 ng of black cloth. The labels are black, with small' white 

 aluminium) lettering, and the effect is strikingly handsome. 

 The elaborate system of recording both economic and herba- 

 ■ium material at this institution was carefully studied. A large 



