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3u]ijjlifil. The spat'e is auflii-ient fori at Cinchona. The ganlen)', green-

a number of investigators at one tinie,| houi-es ami varioux outbuililings afford

anil life there is very pleasant inileed. i)|>[iort unity for propagating plants

Dr. Forrest Shreve of the Desert ami for placing them under a variety

Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of experimental conditions. The near-

nriles that the portions of the Blue ness ot an eiteni^ive tract of virgin

AIountainH which are accessible from forest is alro a valuable as^et for phys-

Cinchona, at both higher and loner' iologieal as well as ecological work,

altitudes, exhibit a diversity of vege- The exi-elleut trails, the eaiiy means of

tation in correlation with the widely communication and supply, the prea-

differing temperature and moisture con- em-e of a guide with a knowledge of

ditions, and alro a vertical diversity (he local flora, and the very healthful

from floor to eanapy ivithin the rain- living conditions combine to make Cin-

fore^t itself. Ample opportunity is chona an extremely useful station for

thus offered for the invctigation of thote who may with to carrj' on more

the physical environment in relation or lefs prolongeil imestieatians in the

to the local and general dir^lribution of problems of the ^enii-torrid and humid

plants. A wide range of plant mate- tropics. rial is available for the study of gen- eral physiological behavior as well as IRRIGATION 7.V BRITISH for the special types of activity char- COLCMBIA ai'teristic of rain-forest plants. The Oxe of the strongest conservation

fuuilamental processes of plants, as lights in all America is being waged

carried on nnder extremely humid con- in British Columbia where the dcstruc-

ilitiona, and the infliieni-e of the char- tion of the forests on the Rocky Moun-

acter and rate of these processes upon tain slopes through continual fires has

the growth, distribution and periodic imperilled many thousands of acres of

lihftiomena of the hygrophytic vegeta- farm land in the valleys. Hand in

i;«ri offer a rich field for future work hand with the^e efforts of the provin-

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