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seum Aid, has been detached from duty at the Museum for a 
period of about six months, and sent with the Total Eclipse Ex- 
pedition under the direction of Professor David P. Todd of Am- 
herst College, to the Dutch East Indies, for the purpose of securing 
museum specimens, living plants and seeds. He sailed March 
2nd on the cargo ship Glengarry, by way of Algiers and Port 
Said for Singapore; he is also commissioned to arrange with 
Mr, H.N. Ri i 
yth and 8th, 10 on the 13th, 14 on the 21st, 13 on the 22nd, 12 
on the 23rd, and 13 on the 24t 
The first observation of indigenous plants in flower was made. 
on the 27th when a specimen of Spathpema fatida (skunk cab- 
bage), with an open spathe was collected from the marsh at th 
ead of the upper lake 
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