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Council of the Imperial Agricultural Bureaux (see Chapter XI). 



In the Union of South Africa the Division of Plant Industry of the 

 Department of Agriculture and Forestry under Dr. I. B. Pole 

 Evans has instituted a botanical survey. The total staff numbers 

 one hundred and nine, and includes nine systematic botanists. In 

 addition to these permanent officers of the government, the botani- 

 cal survey has the co-operation of certain university botanists, not- 

 ably Professor R. S. Adamson of Capetown, Professor J. W. Bews 

 of Natal, Professor W.J. Lutjeharms of Bloemfontein, and Profes- 

 sor J. Phillips of the Witwatersrand University, each of whom 

 undertakes the investigation of systematic botany and ecology in 

 a defined region. 



South Africa is well equipped with reference collections of plants, 

 as shown by the following list of herbaria: At Capetown — the 

 Bolus Herbarium at present attached to the National Botanic 

 Gardens at Kirstenbosch and shortly to be removed to the Uni- 

 versity of Capetown, the South African Museum Herbarium, and 

 the Herbarium of the University of Capetown; at Stellenbosch — 

 the Herbarium of the University; at Grahamstown — the Albany 

 Museum Herbarium; at Durban — the Natal Government Her- 

 barium; at Kimberley — the McGregor Museum Herbarium; at 

 Pretoria — the National Herbarium and the Transvaal Museum 

 Herbarium; at Johannesburg — the Herbarium of the Witwaters- 

 rand University. There is one large botanical garden in South 

 Africa, at Kirstenbosch near Capetown, the director of which. 

 Professor R. H. Compton, is also a Professor at Capetown Univer- 

 sity; an interesting garden is attached to the Stellenbosch Uni- 

 versity and another is at Matgesfontein on the Karroo. There 

 were formerly five other botanical gardens, but all of these have 

 now been replaced as centres of botanical science by the new agri- 

 cultural experimental stations and forestry arboreta. 



Southern Rhodesia has a Department of Agriculture to which two 

 plant pathologists are attached. The post of systematic botanist 

 was suppressed during the financial depression. There is also a 

 Department of Forestry which has carried out extensive work and 

 which maintains a considerable herbarium. A large general her- 

 barium of Rhodesian plants is also to be found in the Queen 

 Victoria Memorial Museum, Salisbury. 



