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"Your obedient Servant 
T. FRE EDERICK ELLIOT. 
Sir W. Hooker. 
Sir William Hooker’s reply embodied the proposals Niner he 
had already made in his letter of May 14, 1857. They were 
accepted, and the series of Colonial Floras was fairly iatihiohibd’ — 
DUKE OF NEWCASTLE TO SIR W. DENISON. 
(Extract.) 
uth. Street, 
June 28th, 1860. 
lam happy to acquaint you that eran gets collections on the 
botany of several of the Colonies are in the hands of the accom- 
plished and energetic Director of the Rovik Gardens at cl Retp é 
that, by order of the Government, publications of some o f these 
Colonial Floras are in course of being produced, under his super- 
2 RO which I have requested him to arrange in one form so 
as exp: into a regular series, and to be capable a being 
nee separately ~ collectively as may suit the wants of 
purchasers. The Australian is amongst the earliest of “qvlifeh I 
hope to see the sabeeaaen hits undertaken, 
Flora of Hong Kong. 
This was the first actually projected by the Colonial Office under 
the new scheme, It was entrusted to George Bentham, Esq., 
a distinguished botanist who, from 1854 to the end of his life, 
collaborated with Kew 
COLONIAL OFFICE TO KEW. 
“ Downing Street, 
20th July, 1860. 
SIR, 
In reference to your letter of the 19th January last, on the 
subject of the publication of a Flora of the Colony of the Hong 
of the Flora pr Hone Kong so soon as it shall have been notified to 
them that the aoe) has been pa biichal, and their Lordships will 
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