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You will be interested, tfc know that our trip 
to Panama, Dorsett's, Graham's and mine, was successful 
in so far as it established on the zone a few of your 
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ehaulmoogra oil trees. These are now growing at 
Corozal and in the lit. Hope Cemetery. We just sent 
down another set with Dr. N. A. Cobb, who left on the 
7th, and we are sending some more with Congressman 
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Hubert F* Fisher, of Tennessee, a member of the Military 
Committee, who is leaving on the 14th. The Governor 
of the Canal Zone is requesting that a botanist be sent 
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down to assist in the preparation of a flora of the 
Canal Zone, and I would not be surprised if something 
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really worth while were to come out of the developments 
there. You know it is a very rainy region, 175 inches 
on the Atlantic coast and 90 on the Pacific, and I 
believe a wide range of tropical plants can be grown 
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* therei As yet there is no botanical garden in 
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■’* existence on the Zone, ho horticulture, only one or two 
men studying biology, and a pitiable lack of under¬ 
standing of the great future of tropical research. 
This state of affairs need not be permanent, and, if 
matters were rightly handled, we ought to have down 
there something larger and more important than a little 
experiment station. Keep this matter in mind in 
connection with your tropical work, for from now on 
the chances are that we will be able to utilize material 
