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this country as the opportunities afforded at Buitenzorg have been to 

 the advance of this science in Europe. 



The equipment available at the Station consists of the residence with 

 its furnishings, 3 laboratory buildings, 2 glass propagating houses, and 

 a garden of 10 acres containing many species of exotic shrubs and trees, 

 besides many native plants from the highlands of Jamaica. The occu- 

 pant of Cinchona is also free, within reasonable bounds, to study and 

 collect plants over the many thousand acres of the whole Cinchona 

 reservation, as well as in the neighboring valleys belonging to private 

 owners. He will likewise be given every available facility for study at 

 Hope Gardens, where he will find an herbarium, a library, and an exten- 

 sive collection of tropical plants. The same privilege will be his at 

 Castleton Garden, which contains fine collections of cycads and palms, 

 and of Ficus and other dicotyledonous trees. 



The many different types of native vegetation accessible from Cin- 

 chona and from Hope include a number of great ecological interest and 

 numerous species of importance for the morphologist, cytologist, and 

 physiologist. The ecological types range from the cool mountain forest 

 with its tree ferns, epiphytes, and water soaked filmy ferns, to the hot, 

 steaming w r oods of the lowlands of the north side at one extreme, and to 

 the dry savannas and cactus deserts near Kingston at the other. Fuller 

 statements of the opportunities for research in various lines, written by 

 men who have worked there, may be found in Science 43:917. 1916 (see 

 also Popular Science Monthly, January 191 5). 



Any American investigator may be granted the use of the Cinchona 

 Station by the Cinchona Committee, which consists of X. L. Britton, 

 John M. Coulter, and Duncan S. Johnson. Applications for this 



privilege and for information regarding the conditions under which it 

 is granted should be sent to the writer. — Duncan S. Johnson, Johns 

 Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. 



