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Flora of Trinidad. 
' A proposal for the preparation at Kew of a Flora of Trinidad 
could not, under the circumstances described, be entertained. 
COLONIAL OFFICE TO KEW. 
Dow nine Stre 
21st he » 1902. 
SIR, ; 
I am directed by Mr~Secretary Chamberlain to transmit, 
for your consideration, a copy of a despatch from the Governor of 
Trinidad, suggesting that a comprehensive account of the Flora of 
the Colony is needed, and that it might be undertaken by a 
member of the staff at Kew w. Mr.Chamberlain would be prepared 
to sanction a vote of £100 per annum for five years for this 
service, if you could make the age ad arrangements. 
gore most obedient Servant, 
C 
The Director, 
Royal Botanic ethan 
Kev 
KEW TO COLONIAL OFFICE. 
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 
March Ist, 1902. 
have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter 
of Fabrasey 21 pry on the subject of the preparation of 
a Flora of Trinidad a 
2. At the present ‘ace I am engaged in directing bad pre- 
paration of eee important works on the vegetation o —the 
Flora of Tropi Africa in nine volames, of which Ge have 
been completed eh the Flora of South Africa in eight volumes, 
of e have been published. These two undertakings 
absorb the dias of the Hee ene can be spared, beyond Ae 
official duties, by the members of my staff, as well as such external 
ee tage assistance as is available. 
: er these circumstances it is not possible to engage in any 
fresh oe of the kind. The proposed Flora of Trinidad must, 
therefore, be deferred for the present. It will not, however, 
be lost sight of. It is possible that, at no very distant a. 
it may be found necessary. to make some oe to the 
staff, in which case I shall recur to the subjec 
4.1 may point out that the study of the sa of Trinidad 
has not been wholly neglected. It is largely caragyese in Grise- 
bach’s Flora of the British West India Islands, published, in 
1864, as one of the series of Colonial Floras initi tiated Me th e instance 
of the Duke of Newcastle, in 1859. An independent work browght 
up to date would no doubt, peng be desira ble. 
lam, 
Your obedient Servant, 
(Sgd.) Wed ioe 
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