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Upon the recommendation of Director Duncan Clement, the Corporation last August ceased financial support of the Adkins Lab because of "increased uncertainty in Cuba" and because there was no longer assurance that funds were controlled by University personnel...
...Clement, now in Cambridge, resumed some of his research on cotton with duplicate plantings in Jamaica, B.W.I. One Cuban on the Adkins staff is now working for him in Cambridge, and the horticulturist of the Garden, a Cuban, has fled to Florida...
After taking power, Castro's administration received assistance from the Garden in supplying planting stock for reforestation and parks and technical advice on reforestation, forest education, and other research programs. Clement refused to take an official government position but served as unofficial consultant in forestry and assisted in the creation of a field station for ecological research in the huge Zapata swamp...
...Cuban government also benefited from a purchase of the Adkins hybrid corn seed production, after Clement approached the government in hopes of getting an agency or company to take over the large production...
...Clement pointed out that Cuba profited from the Adkins Lab through the fruits of student research projects, as a place for an academic exchange of views with scholars from several countries, through the Garden's part-time activity in human nutrition and other fields, and also as a tourist attraction...