Thrilling Experience of Mr. Rock When Searching for the Chaulmoogra Tree From Our Own Connesronosyr, Washington, Mar. 3.
Within a few days after the U.
Public Health Sevvice had nounced the release of lepers "cured" by a treatment which in-eluded the use of chaulmoogra oil, word came from Joseph FP. Rock, who located the chaulmoogra tree in Burma, telling of hi escape from Chi Mr. Rock was lorder of the National Geographic Society Ex-edition to Yunnan Province, China, which found blight-resisting chest" fut trees for transplantation. in the United States. After a few months in this country he returned to Yunnan to seek plant. specimens for the Arnold Arboretum, at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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