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| ~ more intelligent merchants, and officers in the Navy, and sea 
captains who frequent the coasts. 
} ave, &C., 
Sed.) . J. HOOKER, 
Director. 
FY The Right Hon. William Cooper, &e., &e. 
| TREASURY TO OFFICE OF WORKS. 
16818 Treasury Chambers 
495564. 12th December, 1864. 
SIR, 
With reference to your epOrp of the Ist instant, I am 
directed, by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury, 
to acquaint you that ma Lords Soiaee of the proposition con- 
tained in Sir W. Hooker’s letter of the 28th ulto., as to the mode 
and conditions of the euiiadion of the Flora of qT opical Africa. 
Their Lordships reserve the question of the disposal of the 
7 100 copies referred POs until the publication of the Ist volume 
shall have taken pla 
Tam, &c., 
4 (Sgd.) F. PEEL, 
The First Commissioner of Works. 
KEW TO OFFICE OF WoRKs, &C, 
288/68. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 
July 9th, 1868. 
My oe ; 
i Solehenne to the Board’s ‘are of December 12, 1864, 
diepsnetici the pees s approval of a proposal on the part of 
my predecessor, that lants of Tropical Africa, which bad 
i been presented to Kew = various Government, &c., expeditions, 
should be published the form of a Flora of that region, 
upon chin A oe ey pees ae whole merit of ea trent re 
I have &e. ties Peace 
J). Ges 00. 
(Set. Director. 
The First Commissioner of H, M. Works. 
