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trative gifts were equally conspicuous, In Northern rere” 
been found that natural causes render the cultiy ean fact King 
unprofitable to private enterprise. But in coe saree a 
so managed the plantations and factory under his con 
i , are 
The extent and gravity of his purely official duties eel rid aa 
and attention which the reorganisation of the Botanic = = vidal 
administration of the Cinchona department demanded, - 
Europe and dispersed without leaving a set of the plants in the 
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institution at whose cost and on whose behalf it had been brough 
together. 
Tt was not until 1887, when the progress which had been made in 
Botanic ( 
anmic Gardens at Calcutta. and with the 
ing in devoting himself to the task, that he commenced os 
publication of important contributions to botanical literature. 
this year he was enabled, through the |i 
the Annals of the Royal Botanic Garden, 
Caleutta, and he at once 
Artocarpus, Myristica and of the families M/agnoliaceae, 
Anonaceae an Orchidaceae, 
mentioned, which is of interest lar 
' view, these monographs deal with « 
trees, many of them be; 
