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California and thence east through the Middle West and 
south through the Gulf Coast States and into Florida. 
It will Include visits to all the Field Stations of 
the Office and numerous State Experiment Stations and 
private experimenters In plant introduction. He is ex- 
pected back some time in November. 
Dr. Galloway assumes his old title of Plant 
Pathologist, which he retained during all the years 
of his connection with the Bureau of Plant Industry. 
Mr. Frank N. Meyer, Agricultural Explorer of the 
Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction, who 
returned last October from a three years' stay in 
Northwestern China, has finished the writing of his 
reports and the arranging of his material here in 
Washington and has sailed for his third Chinese ex- 
pedition and his fourth into Asia. 
It is expected that he will continue his work on 
the northern fruits and vegetables of China and extend 
his explorations into the provinces south of the 
Yangtze River, which is still, so far as plants are 
concerned, almost an unknown region. 
The climate of these provinces which approach 
the tropics, resembles that of the South Atlantic and 
Gulf States and although temperatures -do not go so 
low there as they do in our Gulf Region, frosts occur 
and many plants, It Is believed, will be found there 
which will thrive, as far north as the Carolinas. 
The hardiness of the giant edible bamboo (a na- 
tive of South China) in Louisiana and as far north as 
Savannah is an indication of the possibility of find- 
ing important new plants in South China, where we have 
records already of edible fruited oaks, slightly frost- 
resistant lltchls, southern pears, plums and grapes, 
and vegetables especially suited for marsh or pond 
culture. 
It is expected that Mr. Meyer will remain in this 
region about three years and arrangements have been 
made for him to cooperate with the Philippine Bureau 
of Agriculture '* in the handling of such new tropical 
plant material as he may discover. 
Mr. Wilson Popenoe, Agricultural Explorer of the 
Office, is now in Guatemala investigating the wild 
plant possibilities of the uplands of that interest- 
ing region where many new fruit species and varieties 
are yet to be discovered which should be brought into 
culture throughout the tropics. Such fruits and vege- 
tables as the Sapote, Avocado, Annona, Chayote, and 
many others will be studied by Mr. Popenoe. 
