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Excerpt from 1970 Annual Report, National Plant Materials Center This report covers the operations of the National Plant Materials Center for the calendar year 1970. Major functions of the Beltsville png include the assembly of seeds and/or plants from world-wide sources for the sos plant materials program; initial increase of assembled material; exchange of conservation plant materials with other countries; and arrangements for verification of identity of plant material. Assembly of new plant materials is vital to an active plant materials program. New accessions totaled only 285 in 1970 because assembly from foreign sources was very low. Distribution of these accessions to the plant materials centers will be made as soon as increased seed quantities allow. Distribution of seed or other plant materials is made to scs plant materials centers and specialists, other agencies of the Department of Agriculture, State Experiment Stations, and plant scientists. A total of packets of seed were sent to scs plant materials centers in 1970; distribution to other agencies totaled 331 packets; and 50h packets were distributed to different foreign countries. Most foreign packets were sent to New Zealand, Afghanistan, Ecuador, England, Morocco, and Israel. The summary of reidentification provides the latest information on plant name Changes through herbarium identifications. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.