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The officers of the University of Arizona and of the Arizona 
Agricultural Experiment Station have taken a lively interest in 
the project and the Tucson Chamber of Commerce expressed its 
appreciation of the importance of the enterprise by donating the 
site, installing a water supply, electric connections and rendering 
other valuable assistance. 
Plans for building have been approved and construction will be 
un as soon as the site is prepared. It is expected that the 
eerie will be Paes for operation about September 1, at 
which time, . A. Cannon, the resident investigator, will take 
up his duties. 
Dr. Arthur Hollick, assistant curator, was opsen on leave 
during the latter part of March, being engaged in the preparation 
of a report on the geology of the Cretaceous formations of Long 
Island for the U. S. Geological Survey. 
Mr. Percy Wilson, museum aid, returned from Honduras 
March 18, bringing a large collection of living and prepared 
specimens of plants frém the region near Puerto Sierra and 
Puerto Cortez. 
D . L. Britton, Director-in-Chief, and Mrs. Britton returned 
from Cuba on April 4th. During the brief visit made to the 
island a large collection of herbarium specimens was made prin- 
cipally from the region around Matanzas, and some desirable 
specimens were brought back for the conservatories. Valua 
assistance was rendered by Mr. John Shafer, curator of the her- 
barium of the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg. In addition to the 
great amount of material secured which will be of great value in 
‘the continuation of investigations upon the flora of the West 
Indies Dr. Britton was so fortunate as to secure several rare 
botanical books not previously in the Library of the Garden. 
Volume II. of the Bulletin of the Garden has been completed 
by the issue of No. 8 under date of March 18. This number con- 
tains only a report of the administration of the Garden during the 
year 1902 and does not include any scientific papers. The total 
number of species of plants under cultivation during the year 
amounted to 10,600. The library was increased by the accession 
of 1,962 volumes and now contains about 13,000 volumes. 67,000 
