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further sanction the purchase of 100 copies of the said work at a 
cost not exceeding £100. 
I am, Sir 
Your obedient Servant, 
Cc. FORTESCUE. 
Sir W. Hooker. 
COLONIAL OFFICE MINUTE. 
As the Hong Kong Flora has been tae: so promptly, and in 
<itian creditable form, I would submit that it would be well to 
Scertain from Sir W. Hooker what went be the best means, and 
the probable cost, of publishing some of the chief Australian 
Floras. As yet only the instlar Floras of that part of the world 
have been produced. The present ethan 39 ould merely elicit 
information by which to judge whether any project should be 
offered to the Treasury. 
T. FREDERICK ie ge 
FREDERIC ROGER 
CHICHESTER S. oiasotie 
Re» pr O61, 
The Flora Australiensis was next taken in hand. 
COLONIAL OFFICE TO KEW. 
Downing Direet, 
26th Februar y, 1561. 
SIR, 
As the Hong Kong Flora is now completed, I am ee 
by the Duke if Newcastle to state that he will be glad to 
favoured with your opinion on the expediency, and on the best 
method of caine the principal Floras of Australia, and on 
the probable cost of the undertaking. 
Seeing that the work has already been accomplished for Tas- 
mania and New Zealand in the accounts which were published, 
with great credit to their ra Dr. Hooker, among the records 
f Sir James Ross’s Australian Voyage, His Grace presumes sa 
mainland of Australia, viz., New South Wales, Victoria, South 
ustralia, Western Australia, and Gucdtis lan 
It would be desirable to form an idea of the number of volumes 
which the Floras of these territories would fill if prepared in the 
same style as that of Hong Kong, and the probable cost of them, 
on the assumption that with each volume should be printed about 
50 plates of a plain and useful description. 
these in it is taken for granted that the 
materials for the work exist in England. If “pes h 
ow am cided red to request that you will have the goodness 
furnish at the same time a list of any other Colonial Floras which 
