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tory, for admission without the payment of fees, but not more than 
one person may be granted the use of any table at the sametime. 
The necessary expenses for a month’s residence at Cinchona 
including traveling expenses to and from ports on the Atlantic 
seaboard of the United States, are from $140 to $200; for two 
months’ residence $160 to $230. N. L. Britton, 
Director-in- Chief. 
OLIVIA AND CAROLINE PHELPS STOKES FUND 
FOR THE PROTECTION OF NATIVE PLANTS. 
Since the establishment of this fund by the Misses Stokes in 
1go!, and largely through the stimulus which it has afforded, a 
great public interest in the preservation of native plants. has been 
developed, and the literature on the subject has become quite 
large 
A society has been formed for the moulding of public opiniom 
in this matter and the diffusion of information concerning it, with 
a membership all over the country. 
In a most of the income of the Stokes Fund was used for 
the payment of prizes for essays on the protection of native 
plants, fe for the distribution i printed copies of these. In 
1903 a series of lectures was arranged for, and pie by Mr. 
C. L. Pollard, Secretary of the Plant Preservation Society, in ten 
eastern cities, which were reported in the newspapers and reached 
a wide audience. _ 
The plan adopted for 1904 contemplates : 
1. The distribution of prize essays 
2. Arrangement for additional lectures. 
2. The printing of notices to be posted wherever it is practi- 
cable. 
The essays for 1904 will be in competition for the following 
prizes, payable April 15. 
t. A first prize of $25.00. 
2. A second prize of $15.00. 
3. A third prize of $10.00. 
