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ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
No. 6] (1921 
XXVIII. 
A VISIT TO THE CAMEROONS AND 
NIGERIA. 
Artuur W. Hitt. 
By the desire of the Rt. Hon. the Secretary of State for the 
Colonies (Viscount Milner) acting on the request of His Excellency 
Sir Hugh Clifford, G.C.M.G., Governor of Nigeria, I was enabled, 
with the permission of the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, 
to visit the Cameroons and Nigeria in February and March last. 
The main object of my deputation was to visit and report 
upon the Botanic Gardens established at Victoria, Cameroons, 
and to advise the Government of Nigeria as to whether they 
should be maintained as a Botanic Garden, and if so as to the 
steps that should be taken for their restoration and future 
maintenance.* 
I left England for this purpose on January 19th and proceeded 
direct to the Cameroons where I arrived in the evening of 
February llth. On February 24th I left the Cameroons, after 
a tour of remarkable interest, and landed at Calabar the following 
day, having spent the previous night at Rio del Rey on the 
border of the two regions. 
His Excellency having arranged that I should also see as 
much as possible of the work of the Agricultural Department 
in Nigeria, I spent two days in Calabar and made a careful 
examination of the Botanic Garden with the late Mr. G. R. 
Pierez, Assistant Superintendent of Agriculture in charge of 
the Station, before continuing my journey to Lagos. 
Owing to an unfortunate misunderstanding of telegrams, it 
_ appeared impossible to travel overland via Onitsha and Benin 
City to Ibadan, so I made my way from Calabar to Itu by 
launch up the Cross River, thence by car through Ikot Ekpene 
to Aba and from there by train to Port Harcourt. 
From Port Harcourt I travelled by the collier “ Diana” to 
Lagos, where I was met by Mr. Kirby, Acting Director of Agri- 
culture, Southern Provinces, and went by car the same day to 
Agege, where we spent two nights and inspected the plantation 
* Nigerian Council, address by the Governor, Dec. 29th, 1920, 
pp. 185, 186. : 
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