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BOTANICAL EXPLORATION OF THE PHILIPPINE 
ISLANDS. 
In the autumn of 1903 the Board of Managers authorized the 
commencement of botanical exploration in the Philippine Archi- 
pelago, and made a preliminary appropriation for that purpose, 
and work was inaugurated in September by sending Mr. R. S. 
Williams to Manila to make collections in cooperation with the 
sular Bureaus of Agriculture and Forestry; he arrived at 
Manila early in November and at once commenced making col- 
lections on the Island of Luzon; under date of December 5, 
1903, he writes that his first shipment of specimens will be dis- 
patched from Meanie within a few days from that time and should 
reach the Garden during February; it is hoped that Mr. Wil- 
liams will be ale’ to remain in the Philippines for a year or more, 
conducting this important work, and that when he returns it 
will be possible to send another collector there so as to continue 
the exploration for a series of years. The Garden has recently 
received through Mr. Elmer D. Merrill, the botanist of the 
Bureau of Government Laboratories of Manila, several thousand 
specimens obtained by him in various parts of the Archipelago, 
and we had previously received through the United States Na- 
tional Museum a considerable collection made in the islands by 
. A. Loher. In addition to this material, and that now being 
obtained by Mr. Williams, there is contained in the Columbia 
University herbarium, on deposit at the Garden, a set of the 
botanical collections made by Mr. Hugh Cuming, an English 
