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apparent therefore that Java is to be regarded as our great com- 
mercial source of the cinchona products. 
A few years since I carefully compiled statistics of cinchona 
production and consumption. Making reasonable allowance for 
subsequent changes, I judge. that there are now about 70,000 
acres planted with about 75,000,000 cinchona trees and that the 
annual consumption of bark is in the neighborhood of 30,000,000 
pounds. 
About a year since, my friends, Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Seeley, of 
St. Louis, made an extended visit to these Java cinchona districts. 
Mr. Seeley thoroughly studied the industry and secured a large 
number of characteristic illustrations. I hoped to induce him to 
favor you with a personal account of his observations. This he 
found it impossible to do but suggested that I should use his 
slides and notes and perform the service for him. I have there- 
fore presented this historical introduction and now propose to 
exhibit and comment as well as I can upon the illustrations. 
Ruspy. 
THE ENDOWMENT FUND. 
Since the publication in the February Journat of the state- 
ment of the Finance Committee of the Board of Managers on 
the need of additional endowment, the following contributions 
have been received : 
Amount reported in the statement .............. $307,397.93 
From Mrs. George Whitfield Collard, in memory 
of the late Josiah M. Fiske ..............0000- 5,000.00 
Sixteen Life Membership fees................... 1,600.00 
Student’s fees added to Students’ Research Fund .. 105.00 
Ol ened ost mcsenats VECICL 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 
Through the kind interest of the Hon. John E. Eustis, Com- 
missioner of Parks of the Borough of the Bronx, over two 
thousand specimens of plants have been added to the collections 
