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Agricultural Department, 
Ibadan, Nigeria. 
23.8.18. 
Dear Mr. Hill, 
see Kew, but one never knows. At the end of this month I shall 
have completed 23 months’ residence, and it will be bad luck 
to get done in on the way home. However, I want to get home 
for some things, and one must take the risk. 
I may say that you haven’t heard of me mycologically because, 
except for rare and brief intervals, I have not been mycologist this 
whole tour. I have been a Curator, the Curator in charge of the 
field labour here and at Agege. My scanty daylight leisure I 
have not devoted to mycology, because Ibadan, or our part of 
it, is mycologically arid. I do not suppose you wish to be deluged 
with fungi imperfecti, Phomas, Cladosporiums, and such like. 
There are no others. So effectively cleared is our place that I 
rarely see a Mycetozoon. I did them up before th 
was complete. Under the inspiration of my former a Ai 
Forgive this preliminary blast on my own particular trumpet— 
= : ‘ gain and again I have 
wished he ek alive. Kew wasn’t the same place to me last 
a ought to be deprived of his microscope (and perhaps 
y representative half-dozen drainas 
eo and see them solved by experts. He would greatly 
y having to dig a few drains himself. I do not pretend 
