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with tropical vegetation in the East. This is not to be done ina 
day for the purposes of a definitive work of this kind, which can 
only be attempted with trained experience. In the meantime, it is 
ae to bring the work toa conclusion with as little delay as 
possibl 
D. Tadet the circumstances: eng Joseph Hooker has most 
y the , 
viewiay ation of Ceylon Plants. He has just brought his whine 
of British India to a conclusion, the work of a quarter of a centur 
He estimates that the completion of the Handbook to the Flora Of 
Ceylon would occupy him for two years. I need hardly say that 
there is no living botanist more competent for the task. It would, 
of course, be proper to offer him some honorarium for his labours. 
and _, pounds) per volume or £500 in all. The expenditure 
would be spread over two years. 
6. Of a terms = eigen Gao with the publisher, [ have no 
informat Thes ould, doubt, be settled with Messrs. 
Dulau & Oss by ‘ise oleiial Sivenies nt. 
I es &e., 
ev THISELTON-DYER. 
John Bramston, Esq., C.B., 
olonial Offic 
e, 
Downing Street, S.W. 
COLONIAL OFFICE TO KEW. 
Downing Street, 
20th April, 1897, 
SIR, 
I am directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to inform you, 
with reference to the letter from this Department of the 12th 
ultimo, sre the Governor of Ceylon has signified by telegram, his 
acceptance of your proposals relative to the completion of Dr. 
Trimen’s rke n the Flora of Ceylon 
Iam to request that you will communicate with Sir Joseph 
Hooker on the subject and invite him to take the work in hand on 
the terms which you have suggested. 
T am, Sir, 
Your most obedient Servant, 
(Sg FRED. GRAHAM. 
The Director o 
The Sisal pena Gardens, 
Flora Capensis. 
e following statement is taken from the Natural History 
eats for 1861, p foo 
“ Another Coli Flora, the ‘ Flora Capensis’ of Drs. Harvey 
and Sonder, which will embrace the plants of all Africa south of 
