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Nigeria {Southern Provinces) : 



Mr. T. Laycock, formerly Agricultural Inspector, to be 

 Mycologist in the Department of Agriculture. 



Mr. G. R. Pierez, to be an Assistant Superintendent in the 

 Department of Agriculture. 



Ceylon ; — 



Lt.-Col. E. Summers, R.E., to be Economic Botanist in the 

 Department of Agriculture. 



Federated Malay States ; — 



Mr. F. de la Mare Norris, Assistant Agricultural Inspector, 

 to be Assistant to the Director of Agriculture. 



Mr. "W. 1ST. C. Belgrave, B.A., Assistant Mycologist, to be 

 Plant Physiologist in the Department of Agriculture. 



Mr. B. Bunting, Assistant Agriculturist, to be Agriculturist in 

 the Department of Agriculture. 



Mr. H. EL Stirrup, M.Sc, Assistant Agricultural Inspector, 

 to be Assistant Mycologist in the Department of Agriculture. 



Mr. "W. N. Sands, E.L.S., formerly a member of the gardening 

 staff at Kew, and since 1899 Agricultural Superintendent in St. 

 Vincent, West Indies (K.B., 1899, 133), to be Assistant Economic 

 Botanist in the Department of Agriculture. 



Mr. E. Birkinshaw, xigricultural Instructor, Department of 

 Vgriculture, Mauritius (K.B., 1914, 227), a former member of 

 the gardening staff at Kew, and for some time Assistant Agricul- 

 tural Superintendent, St. "Vincent (K.B., 1912, 350), to be 



Assistant Agricultural Inspector in the Department of Agricul- 

 ture. 



St. Vincent : 



Mr. T. Jackson, formerly a member of the gardening staff at 

 Kew, and since 1905 Curator of the Botanic Station, Antigua 

 (K.B. 3 1905, 60), to be Agricultural Superintendent in succession 

 to Mr. Sands. 



British Guiana: 



Mr. G. E. Bodkix, B.A., Economic Biologist, to be Assistant 

 Director of the Department of Science and Agriculture. 



Mr. F. Stell, of the Imperial College of Science and Techno- 

 logy, to be Mycologist in the Department of Science and Agri- 



cult 



ure. 



Mr. J. C. Moore. — We regret to learn of the retirement 

 through ill-health of Mr. J. C. Moore, Agricultural Superin- 

 tendent, Grenada. Mr. Moore entered Kew as a young gardener 

 in 1893. In 1895 he was appointed Curator of the Botanic 

 Station, St. Lucia, and in 1914 was transferred to the position 

 he has now vacated. 



