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Panama and other prominent Panamanian and Zone officials. He also received 
a delegation of the Zone "old-timers.* 1 
Through the kind intermediation ofJ3r. James 2etek, Mr, Paul Allen, 
of the Missouri Bot&nical Garden station here in the Zone gave my seedling 
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palms fra® some much needed attention — a good soaking and packing in 
sphagnum moss. The President much interest 
August 5 . 
following an all-day inspection of the Canal Zone, its defenses, 
and adjacent portions of the Republic of Panama, the President boarded the 
Houston at the upper Gatun locks. We left at about 6:00 p.m. for the last 
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Anchored about half past ten in 8 fathoms off Catalina Harbor^: The 
were given to Captain Roundell, of the Colombian destroyer, Cal das , who earlier 
in the day had paid his respects to the President, and two small young speci- 
mens of the Great Barracuda which were not saved for specimens were all that 
were taken . 
The littoral and reef collecting and the dredging, on the other 
hand, yielded surprisingly rich returns— a number of the commoner West Indian 
Crustacea, mollusks, and echinoderas. Some fourteen or fiaf fifteen species of 
fish, mostly gobies and small rock fishes, were gotten from tide pools along 
shore. Two of the gobies have been determined by Mr. Ginsburg, of the G. S. 
