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Extract from letter from Director of the Botanical Survey ot 

 the Union of South Africa, to Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, 

 Kew, dated Division of Botany, Department of Agriculture, 

 South Africa, 26th November, 3918. 



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With reference to your letter of the 23rd of April last on the 

 above subject and for which I am greatly indebted to you, I beg 

 to inform you that I am now authorised by the Hon. the Minister 

 for Agriculture to inform you that he has approved of provision 

 being made on tbe Estimates of this Division for the forthcoming 

 financial year for the salary of a Botanical Assistant at Kew in 

 terms of your letter. 



It is of course understood that the officer appointed will devote 

 his or her whole time at Kew to work connected with the 

 Botanical Survey of the Union and with this Division and such as 

 the Director of Kew may think fit. 



Extract from letter from Director of the Botanical Survey of 

 the Union of South Africa, to Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, 

 Kew, dated Division of Botanv, Department of Agriculture, 

 South Africa, 28th April, 1919. 



Botanical Assistant at Kew. 



Our Estimates for the year ending March, 1920, have just- 

 been passed and I have written for the necessary authority to 

 Cape Town, where the Minister is at present, to proceed with the 

 appointment of the Botanical Assistant at Kew in terms of your 

 letters of the 22nd of January last and April 23rd, 1918, and 



by the next mail I hope to be able to write definitely on the 

 subject. 



^ On September 15th, 1919, a letter from the High Commis- 

 sioner for the Union of South Africa, in confirmation of the 

 letters from Dr. Pole-Evans, announced that the post of Botanical 

 Assistant for the Union of South Africa at Kew had been duly 

 authorised and requested the assistance and advice of the 



Director of Kew in the selection of a suitable incumbent for the 

 post. 



The Director was able on September 19th to inform the High 

 Commissioner that he was fortunately in a position to put 

 forward the name of a citizen of the Union of South Africa for 

 favourable consideration. 



On October 15th Kew was informed by the High Commissioner 

 that he had offered the post to Miss A. G. Corbishlev, a graduate 

 of the University of South Africa, and that she had accepted 

 the appointment. 



Miss Corbishley, who is a B.A. of the University of South 

 Africa, received her botanical training under Professor J. W. 

 Bews at Natal University College, Pietermaritzburg. 



