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members of the staff and officially published in the Kew 
Bulletin. _ These were available for working up subsequently in 
the Flora 
The first instalment was published in December, 1897. Four 
additional volumes have in all been issued, although not in 
regular sequence, and a fifth is passing throwgh the press. In 
the meantime ate difficulties arose between the various offices 
concerned of a not wholly intelligible kind, which led to a 
reconsideration of his position by the edito 
OFFICE OF WORKS TO TREASURY. 
March 11, 1899. 
SIR, 
reply to your letter of the 24th January last, No. 96,99, 
Iam a sie: for the information of the Lords Commissioners — 
of Her Majesty’ s Treasury, that the Board now learn from Sir 
. T. Thiselton-Dyer that he acquiesces in the scheme proposed 
for oe suena of on — of Tropical Abbe, subject to 
reser which need n rise in a practical form at present, 
exce aut tak he aay Bik that the proebuietiin of each part shall be a 
voucher for the paymen 
lam, &¢., 
(Sgd.) R. B. BRETT. 
The Secretary, H.M. Treasury. 
TREASURY TO OFFICE OF WORKS. 
Treasury Chamber 
iy 22, 1899. 
"Tam directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's 
to you a n expression of siete: pier dinie, satisfaction at the 
contents of that lette 
lam, &e., 
(Sgd.) FRANCIS MOWATT. 
The First Commissioner of Works. 
KEW TO COLONIAL OFFICE. 
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 
December 8, 1905. 
rhea A Page which is being prepared in this establishment 
with the aid of various botanists, under my supervision and 
carne: 
2. It may be convenient to bring under your notice briefly the 
