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The magnitude of the subject and the importance Mr. Daw 
attaches to it are summed up in the two following extracts oa 
from Mr. Dawe’s paper in T'ropical Life, May 1922, where he also 
shows a photograph of the grass in its natural habitat :— 
“ Tt is, however, quite obvious that a project of such magnitude 
and importance as this could not be effectively carried out in an; 
part of Africa without the sympathetie support and liberal assist- 
ance of the Government of the country. It is, further, a scheme 
be id would have to be carried out on a very big scale to be 
tive.” - 
“Tf the results of planting this grass as is herein outlined 
eame up to the writer’s expectations in such regions of Africa 
as those referred to, a work of the highest humanitarian import- 
ance will have been achieved for the people; for in the place of 
a decreasing population and vacant lands wil! grow up a healthy 
and thriving people, as well as a cattle industry which should 
contribute materially to the economic development and prosperity. 
of the country. It is therefore that the writer considers this grass 
worthy of the fullest. vestigation and trial.’” 
LXVII.—_THE GOVERNMENT GARDENS, SOKOTO, 
: NIGERIA. 
In Kew Bulletin, 1921, p. 238, reference was made to the 
remarkable and valuable achievement of Dr. Bernard Moiser, 
Principal Medical Officer, Sokoto, in establishing the foundation 
of a botanic garden in so ‘arid and unpromising a place as Sokoto, 
in the Northern Territories of Nigeria. It was hoped that Dr. 
Moiser would have been able to furnish an account of his work 
for publication in the Bulletin, but time has not permitted him 
to do so and therefore this brief notice has been compiled from 
notes he has supplied and from other sources. 
His Excellency Sir Hugh Clifford, G.C.M.G., Governor of 
Nigeria, visited the Sokoto. Gardens in the spring of this year 
and was very greatly impressed with the important results of 
Dr. Moiser’s untiring efforts. So much was he convinced of the 
value of the undertaking that he addressed a minute on the 
gardens to the Chief Secretary to Government, Nigeria. 
Excellency has been pleased, ‘at the request of the Director, 
to permit his minute to be published in the Bulletin. 
Cory or His Excernency Tan GovERNOR’s MINUTE ON THE 
OKOTO GARDENS 
' ord Secretary to Government, 
“ During my recent stay at Sokoto I was very greatly. struck 
by the really beautiful gardens which Dr. R. Moiser, the Senior 
