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l)y the Maui Agricultural Company and the Hawaiian Commercial 
& Sugar Company on land belonging to the government in the 
Koolau forest reserve, bordering the irrigation ditches maintained 
by those corporations. 
I next made an inspection of certain of the forest planting of 
the .AIaui Agricultural Company at Kailiili and Opana, Maui, 
and then met Governor Frear and his party at Lahaina and accom- 
panied them on a three days' trip to the island of Kahoolawe. 
The object of this trip was to look into the question of the most 
feasible method of starting reclamation of the denuded portions 
of that island. 
Mr. W. F. ]\Iartin, federal hydrographer, who was one of the 
party, set up four rain gauges on Kahoolawe which will yield 
data that later wiW be of value in connection with whatever plant- 
ing is carried on. 
Returning to ]\Iaui, I visited the Cornwell Ranch in Kula to 
secure information on the ground on which to base recommenda- 
tions for a planting plan for a portion of the government lands of 
Waiohuli-Keokea and Waiakoa-Alae, there being requirements 
in the new leases of those lands that become operative on Novem- 
ber 1, 1911, that the ranch shall plant groves of trees. 
The last few days of my stay on Ma.u'i were given to an inspec- 
tion of certain of the plots on the upper slopes of Mt. Haleakala 
where experimental forest planting is in progress under federal 
auspices. In Plot I, near Puu Nianiau, elevation 6000 feet, there 
was a very encouraging show^ing, both of the seedlings set out 
and of seed sown in seed spots. In Plot II, further toward Kula, 
elevation 7000 feet, the showing was not so good, many of the 
seedlings planted out last spring having died. This is probably ac- 
counted for in part by the fact that on the mountain the past sum- 
mer has been unusually hot and dry. Additional lots of forest 
tree seed were sown in both plots. I returned to Honolulu on the 
morning of October 1. 
Botanical BuUctin. 
On September 2 there was issued, as Botanical Bulletin No. 1, 
an illustrated 16-page pamphlet entitled ''New and Noteworthy 
Hawaiian Plants," in which Mr. J. F. Rock of this Division de- 
scribes a new genus, Hibiscadelphus, consisting of three new 
species, and a new Sapindus, and Dr. L. Radlkoffer of Munich, 
a new Alectryon. A portion of the cost of publishing this bulletin 
was borne bv private subscription. An edition of 750 copies was 
struck off. The bulletin has been sent to those of our exchanges 
interested in botanical research. 
Yearbooks. 
During the earlv part of September, the usual annual distribu- 
tion of the Hawaiian quota of the Yearbook of the U. S. Depart- 
