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Dr. [now Sir John] Kirk, the able botanist and companion of 
Dr. Livingstone in his im se hae explorations, but who, I now 
find, is unable to undertake it 
I therefore ee os reply to the queries contained in the 
Treasury letter, v 
With regard to “ the mode of bringing out the work.” 
“The authorship.” 
* The price to be char; ged to the public. 
“The number of copies to be veotvet for public service.’ 
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1. in regard to the mode of bringing out the work, Messrs 
Lovell, Reeve, & Co., eminent natural history publishers in 
Lo nilon, gobs agreed to publish the four yeti at their own 
risk and cost, on the same Senet as they publish those of 
the “ “Colonial Floras,” namely, that 100 copies shall be taken on 
volume), and that the copyrights and profits shall be theirs. 
The work to be uniform with that sloped for ap Ds cue of 
the 
the “Series of Colonial Floras,” un e 
Secretary of State for the Colonies. ie vais to be caeuad in 
each of the four succeeding years, or as ly so as possible. 
nearly p 
The descriptions to be entirely in English, and to include, besides 
the botanical ee Ries “4 the uses and properties of the 
plants, native names, The size to be 8vo.; each volume to 
contain not less than £007 nor more = thier 600 page es. 
2. In Sa to “ igen ig ca —Dr. Kirk having declined this, 
Dr. pitowe Sir Joseph] Hooker, Assistant Director in the Royal 
Gardens, and Professor Oliver, Librarian in the same establish- 
ment, are able and willing to ‘undertake it during their leisure 
py with the approval of our First Commissioner, i 
muneration to be £200 ae om the grant of £1,200) upon each 
piv ume on the day of public 
aie price to be iced: to the public.’—20s. for each 
volum 
4. “The number of copies reserved for public service.””—One 
hundred copies of each volume, to be paid for on the day of 
In regard to these copies, however, I may perhaps be allowed 
to observe that, in the case of the Colonial Floras, those 100 copies 
to the respective Governors seca have paid for them, and who 
are best competent to know how they can be most pa vantageotay 
disposed of. In the sntitillies case, my Lords of H.M. Treasury, 
whose copies they are, may not find such a distribution Sehyentons 
or practicable. In that case, if the copies, or any portion of 
them, are made over to the First Commissioner of H.M. Works 
(as the head of the Royal Gardens, and with his permission), or 
to the establishment at the Royal Gardens, I would gladly make 
the best use o them can, sending some to our tropical African 
Colonies, to missionaries, &c., there, and supplying others to the 
many travellers coe explorers in tropical Africa, and some to our 
