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Executive Officer take up the matter of law pertaining to the im- 
portation of fruits, plants, etc., with the Attorney General with an 
idea of securing aid from the Secretary of Agriculture, at Wash- 
ington. 
CO M MUNI CATION S . 
Letter to Prof. Dr. I gnats Urban. — The chairman read letter 
to Prof. Dr. Ignatz Urban, Director of the Royal Botanic Garden, 
Berlin, Germany, dated January 6, requesting the loan for a short 
time of herbarium specimens of certain genera of Hawaiian 
plants, for the purpose of comparing the same with a large col- 
lection of material of the same genera recently gathered by the 
Board's botanical assistant, in order to facilitate correct identifica- 
tion ; the same to be returned to the Royal Botanic Garden at Ber- 
lin immediately upon completion of the comparison. 
Passion Vine. — The chairman read letter also to Mr. A. F. Grif- 
fiths, president of Oahu College, calling attention to the spread of 
an injurious plant on this Island, a patch of which is near the 
College grounds, and suggesting that this be dug up and burned. 
This plant, namely, passion vine (Passiflora triloba), called also 
huamakani by the Hawaiians, if eaten by calves, produces paraly- 
sis of the entire nervous system, brings on convulsions and high 
temperature and finally causes death. Unfortunately this is some- 
what widely distributed on the windward side of Oahu. 
President's Resignation. — President Campbell read to the mem- 
bers of the Board letter dated January 19, as follows : 
''Gentlemen : — I beg to inform you that I have this day tendered 
my resignation to Governor Walter F. Frear as President and 
Executive Officer of the Board of Agriculture and Forestry, same 
to take efTect upon the appointment of my successor." 
In explanation he stated that he cannot devote the time to the 
Board that it should have on account of the constantly increasing 
demands on his time from the Lands, Survey and Public Works 
Departments, and that he deeply regretted the necessity of such 
action, as the work had been one of absorbing interest. 
Mr. Campbell stated that he will aid all he can in legislative 
■ matters and in all matters pertaining to the apportionment of the 
revenue from the special conservation-immigration income tax. 
The members expressed their great regret at this action of the 
President and Executive Officer. 
Mr. Campbell then announced as members of the Finance Com- 
mittee Mr. Albert Waterhouse and Mr. D. P. R. Isenberg, the 
former as chairman. 
Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Commissioners of 
Agriculture and Forestry, held in the Library of the Government 
Nursery on King street, Friday, February 24, 1911, at 2:00 
o'clock p. m. 
