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The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, have been so closely asso- 
ciated with the establishment of the Imperial Department of 
Agriculture since 1898 (see K.B., 1898, pp. 234-237) when Dr. 
(now Sir Daniel) Morris, then Assistant Director of Kew, was 
appointed Commissioner, that we take pleasure in publishing 
the following copy of tbe letter from the Acting Governor of 
Barbados written to Sir Francis Watts, Principal and Commissioner 
of Agriculture, on the occasion of the transfer of the headquarters 
of the Imperial Department, following upon its amalgamation 
with the West Indian Agricultural College :— 
** As your departure will mark the close of the long association 
of this Colony with the Headquarters of the Imperial Department 
of Agriculture, I cannot let the occasion pass without an expression 
of regret at the termination of this association between the Colony 
and a Department whose work has been a landmark in the history 
of the West Indian Colonies. I beg also to be allowed to express 
the cordial gratitude of the Government of Barbados for the 
valuable and ready assistance which the Imperial Department 
has rendered the local Government on numerous occasions, as 
well as for many personal courtesies from yourself. In bidding 
farewell to the Imperial Department, may I also assure you of 
the warm good wishes of the Barbados Government for the 
success and prosperity of the Agricultural College in which the 
Department will now be merged, and of our confident hope that 
the establishment of the College will prove to be a great step 
forward in the development of scientific tropical agriculture not 
only in the West Indies but also in a wider field.” 
The West Indian College was opened on October 16th by 
Sir Samuel Wilson, Governor of Trinidad and Tobago. Eighteen 
students have been enrolled, three being post-graduates. 
Museum No. 4.—The Forestry needs of the Empire so clearly 
demonstrated at the British Empire Forestry Conference in 1920 
and more particularly the critical stage reached in deforestation 
in the British Isles as a result of the demands for timber during 
the war, have directed attention to the urgent necessity of 
providing for the future timber supply in the British Isles. The 
public generally have very little conception of the problems 
connected with British Forestry and but limited opportunity of 
becoming acquainted with them. Visitors to Kew are afforded 
in Museum. No. 4, an opportunity of studying the diversity of 
problems which are embraced under “ Forestry.’’ For the 
majority such visits to a museum are their only means of obtaining 
a knowledge of the subject, and it is for this reason that this 
comprehensive collection of British Forestry exhibits has been 
got together. The collection contains specimens typical of 
British grown timber; many examples of the almost unlimited 
uses to which home grown timber is put in every-day life and 
exhibits of the various stages of manufacture of the articles made 
om timber; examples of the principal fungus and insect pests 
that demand the forester’s attention, and photographs of forest 
