Society and the N.Y. Botanical Garden. His work, in fact comprises the most and the best of the scientific work of the Expedition and it ought to be published as soon and as well as possible, for the sake of the reputa- tions of the institutions back- ing the Expeditions. One phase of the questions that is of high importance to EK is the getting a Ph.D. out of it. I suggested the possibility of effecting a working arrangement with Co- lumbia through Profs. Kemp and Britton. A good programme would be - three or four months at the Bo- tanical Garden, then four to six months at the Museum and Geograp-h cal Society's fldg on geology, ornith- ology and geography, then three months or the examination of the arctic botan- ical collections at Copenhagen, Lund and Kew Gardens, ending with