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Zealand this summer in order to enlarge his ph\'togeographical 

 experiences and also to secure data on the plants introduced 

 into Australia. He will also endeavor to study in their original 

 habitats man\- of the Australian and New Zealand plants 

 introduced into other parts of the world. Enroute short visits 

 will be made to Hawaii, Samoa and Fiji. Photographs will be se- 

 cured of the interesting vegetations of the countries visited 

 and some collecting of plants done. 



Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde has appointed 

 a committee from the Department of Agriculture to confer with 

 the National Arboretum Advisory Council as required by the 

 Act establishing the Arboretum. The members of the Depart- 

 mental Committee are Dr. A. F. Woods, director of Scientific 

 Work; Dr. W. A. Taylor, chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry; 

 Major R. Y. Stuart, chief of the Forest Service; and Dr. F. V. 

 Coville, and Dr. W. T. Swingle, of the Bureau of Plant Industry. 



The National Arboretum, as authorized by Congress, will 

 be developed on a large tract of land in the District of Colum- 

 bia, including reclaimed land near the Anacostia River above 

 the Benning Bridge. It will be both an educational and recrea- 

 tional center, and an important adjunct to the scientific activi- 

 ties of the Government, particularly the Department of Agri- 

 culture. To the fullest degree possible, it is expected the manage- 

 ment of the National Arboretum will collect plants and trees 

 from all the regions of the world for cultivation, study and 

 breeding in the grounds of the Arboretum. Doctor Coville, 

 one of the members of the Departmental Committee, has sug- 

 gested the function of the Arboretum in such phrases as a "liv- 

 ing library of the plants of the world," and as "a five foot 

 shelf of the more important plants." 



Four scientists of the Bureau of Plant Industry of the I'nited 

 States Department of Agriculture recently left for the Dutch 

 East Indies. 



Dr. F. V. Coville, principal botanist, and H. T. Edwards, 

 senior technologist in fiber plant investigations, are delegates 

 to the Fourth Pan-Pacific Science Congress to be held at Bata- 

 via and Bandoeng, Java, May 16-23, while Dr. R. D. Rands 

 and George Arceneaux, specialists in sugar-cane diseases, will 



