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Dr, W. A. Cannon, who is in charge of the Desert Botanical 
Laboratory of the Carnegie Institutlon, at Tucson, Arizona, spent 
few days at the Garden in January in consultation with Dr. 
MacDougal of the advisory committee of that institution. 
Mr. J. F. Cowell, Director of the Botanic Garden of Buffalo, 
has undertaken some investigations of the flora of Panama for the 
New York Botanical Garden. Mr. Cowell sailed for Colon on 
February 15, and will first make an examination of the canal 
zone, 
