12 AXXUAL REPOET SMITHS0:NIAX INSTITUTIOoST, 1922, 



FLORA OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 



At the request of Gen. Leonard Wood, Governor General of the 

 PhiliiDpine Islands, a plan for the preparation of a flora of the 

 Philippine Islands was drawn up by the Institution, together with 

 an estimate of the cost. This work, Avhich it is proposed will be 

 accomplished through cooperation of the Smithsonian Institution 

 with the Philippine Government, will be of the greatest importance 

 to the agricultural interests, and, since the prosperity of the Phil- 

 ippines is primarily dependent on agriculture, to the islands them- 

 selves. In addition to these material benefits, such a flora would be 

 of great value to science, and a large number of specimens of rare 

 and valuable plants from the Philippines would come to the National 

 Herbarium as a result of its preparation. 



At the close of the fiscal year funds had not been appropriated 

 for beginning the work, 



BAIRD MEMORIAL COMMITTEE. 



To celebrate the centenary of the birth of Spencer Fullerton 

 Baird, second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, February 

 3, 1923, there was formed early in 1922 the Baird Memorial Com- 

 mittee. It was decided at a preliminary meeting that a public 

 meeting should be held in Washington on February 3, 1923, at which 

 addresses will be delivered and announcements made of the form of 

 memorial or memorials that have been decided upon, and that 

 wreaths should be placed on the grave of Baird in Oak Hill Ceme- 

 tery, the bust of Baird in the American Museum of Natural History 

 in New York City, the Baird memorial bowlder of the American 

 Fisheries Society at Woods Hole, and the Baird memorial tablet 

 at the Bureau of Fisheries in Washington. 



The form which the memorial to Professor Baird should take was 

 not definitely decided, several plans having been considered. Among 

 these were a bust or tablet to be erected in the Smithsonian grounds, 

 the establishment of a Baird memorial medal to be awarded for 

 specially meritorious work in science, the publication of a memorial 

 volume of orginal scientific papers by Baird's associates or followers, 

 and a fisheries exhibit, preferabl}^ a museum. 



DEVELOPMENT OF MULTIPLE-CHARGE ROCKET. 



The develoj^ment of a model multiple-charge rocket, mentioned 

 in previous reports, for the purpose of demonstrating the principle, 

 is being continued by Prof, Robert H, Goddard, of Clark University, 

 under a grant from the Hodgkins fund. 



The specific work of the past year has been the development and 

 test of certain new features which will increase considerably the 



