Plant Survey Begun
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On behalf of the South Pacific Commission, two scientists. Dr.
Jacques Barrau, and Mr. H. Pardee, began a preliminary survey last year of medicinal plants traditionally used in the South Pacific. Dr. Barrau, a former Executive officer for Economic Development in the SPC, is now assistant director of the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris.
Mr. Pardee is from Yale University.
At the South Pacific Conference in Lae in 1965, delegates requested the SPC "to gather information on medicinal plants existing in the ter ritories, and, if possible, to collect samples for identification and analysis, bearing in mind the pos sibility of introducing and using these plants in the practical field".