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forestry, laboratory for the study of tobacco, laboratory for the 
study of coffee, and laboratory for agricultural zodlogy. 
The garden proper has an area of 401 acres, and the mountain 
with 10,800 volumes is also accessible to workers in the garden, 
The herbarium amounts to more than a hundred thousand speci- 
mens, and the museum contains a large amount of material of 
scientific and economic interest. 
Special laboratories are provided for the use of visiting botanists’ 
and so far 75 investigators have used - facilities provided, of 
which but one was from the United Sta 
It is of interest to note that a pain “of meteorology is con- 
templated as a necessary adjunct to the work in plant physiology. 
Mr. R. S. Williams, who spent the seasons of 1898 and 1899 in 
the Yukon Se esa is now serving as a special museum aid at 
the Garden e made extensive collections of cea plants 
of the region, which are now being studied by and members 
of the sta This plant collection is believed to ce the first one 
made in ine ondike region and it contains many species of 
es scientific interest; an account of it together with an: 
enumeratio the ea is being prepared by the Director-in- 
chief. afer: a complete set of the material has been filed in the! 
herbarium, the duplicates sf be distributed to correspondents of; 
h n 
Mr. A. A. Heller has returned to Puerto Rico to extend his 
collections made in He will keep the field during: Janu- 
ary and Fe eneey cn heddquaiten at Mayaguez in the western 
part of the islan 
our botanical organizations will convene in New York during 
the Botanical Section of the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science, the Botanical Club of the same Associa- 
tion, and the Society for Plant Physiology and oe 
The last named will meet for business purposes 
