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may have been already published, or ordered for publication 
together with a statement of the progress of the latter. 
I am, Sir. 
Your most obedient Servant, 
T. FREDERICK ELLIOT. 
Sir William Hooker. 
The Treasury declined to sanction neo heen ge of the work 
at the expense of the Home Governmen 
COLONIAL OFFICE TO KEW. 
Downing Street, 
24th April, 1861. 
SIR, 
With reference to yous letter of the 28th February last, I 
am jeans by the Duke of Newcast'e to acquaint you that His 
Grace brought under the Toes of the Lords Commissioners of 
the sg ss ry the considerations in favour of publishing an 
Australian Flora, in the same shape as the Se published 
Flora of Hong Kong, at the expense Hamas: ountry, but that 
adverting to the wealth of the several Coloni in Australia, and 
to the sense which they have shown 0 ree ‘diteresta of science 
and commerce, their Lordships have stated that they think that 
any works of the proposed description may be left to the enter- 
prise of the Colonies themselves, and th shai are no sufficient 
reasons to warrant their being undertaken at the cost of this 
country. 
The Duke of Newcastle does not feel that he would be yi 
in ‘questioning the conclusion thus arrived at by the Lords Co1 
missioners of aon Reansary. as the proper guardians of ne 
Imperial Excheque 
At some fataee: da the several answers received from all the 
British Colonies on their collections of Natural History, and on 
the extent to which they have yet been teen oes will be care- 
gee eviewed, and the question can then considered whether 
will be advisable to put the Australian Gevauiie nts in posses- 
sion = i work which has been published for Hong Kong, and 
whether they would be disposed to authorise a similar 
pabaeation for Australia at the expense of the Colonial Treasuries. 
1 am, Sir, 
Your obedient Servant 
fi 
FREDERICK ELLIO’. 
Sir William Hooker. 
The difficulty was, however, speedily overcome :— 
GOVZRNOR SIR G. BOWEN TO THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE. 
Government Hous 
Bri debasing: Queensland, 
30th July, 1861. 
My i. DUKE, 
have the honour to report that | received by the last mail 
a letter rae Sir William Hooker, containing a proposal from 
