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Mr. E. Downes, a member of the gardening staff of the Royal 
Botanic Gardens, has been appointed by the Secretary of State 
for the Colonies, on the recommendation of Kew, Assistant Super- 
intendent of Public Gardens, Jamaica 
. 
Mr. E. A. Ruck, a member of the gardening staff of the Royal 
Botanic Gardens, has been appointed by the Secretary of State 
for the Colonies, on the recommendation of Kew, an Assistant 
District Agricultural Officer in the Department of Agriculture, 
Uganda. 
Mr. E. A. Huaues, a member of the gardening staff of the 
Royal Botanic Gardens, has been appointed by the Secretary of 
State for India in Council, on the recommendation of Kew, a 
gardener in the service of the Government of the Punjab. 
Mr. G. H. Fornercity, a member of the gardening staff of the 
Royal Botanic Gardens, has been appointed by the Secretary of 
State for India in Council, on the recommendation of Kew, a 
gardener in the service of the Government of Bengal. 
Mr. E. A. McCatran, First Agricultural Assistant, Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, Bermuda, has been appointed by the 
Secretary of State for the Colonies, Director of Agriculture, 
Bermuda, in succession to Mr. E. J. Wortley (K.B., 1920, 285). 
Mr. W. H. Jounson, lately Director of Agriculture, Southern 
Provinces, Nigeria, 
parts of Australia with reference to cotton growing in that 
country. 
Joun Reaper Jackson.—We record with great regret the death 
of Mr. J. R. Jackson on October 28th at Lympstone, 8, Devon. 
in his 84th year. Since the year 1914’he had been in indifferent 
health, but had still been able to enjoy his well-earned rest and 
devote some time to the subject of Economic Botany in which he 
had a lifelong interest. 
‘hen Mr. Jackson retired from the post of Keeper of the 
Museums in 1901 a note was published in the Kew Bulletin for 
at year, on p. 201, giving a brief account of his work at Kew. 
Since his retirement from his offici 
