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obtained from the Government Grant Connie of the Royal 
Society, further aid amounting to £150 was therefore obtained 
from the British Association, and progress reports were ash ahi 
to that body in 1887, 1888, and 1889. The total sum received 
and expended =A the Committee on the aden up to 1891 
amounted to £85 
“In 1890 Mr. Hetnsley was appointed to the post of Principal 
Assistant in the Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 
and his official ‘ema precluded his devoting himself an y longer 
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ributions th 
ie ibiéation a been exclusively borne by the Linnean Society. 
“ During their sagples ond hoth unhappily passed away during 
the progress of the work) the Committee met with the kindest 
sympathy and pact ahigrs saa M. C. J. pera ee of the 
Académie Impériale of St. Petersburg, who had long been engag: 
on the elaboration of the collections made by et epratbieg 
in China, and from M. Franchet of the Mus d’ Histoire 
Naturelle at Paris, who was occupied in deat cil publishing 
the extremely rich collections made by the French missionaries 
unnan. 
“The following letter affords an interesting wwe ee to the 
importance Maximowicz attached to the Enumeratio 
“ Petersburg Botanic Garden, 
“ September 15, 1885, 
“DEAR SIR, 
“You have caused me a most agreeable surprise by the 
gift of the first fasciculus of Messrs. Forbes and Hemsley’s 
most important enumeration of the flora of China. I need not 
wi 
through the important set of Dr. Henry’s Hupeh plants, pice 
received from the Kew Herbarium, in whic a ae quite 
humber of the novelties. It appears, howeve t the first 
She were already printed when Dr. Henry’s vals reached 
“What a pity it is that our esteemed Dr. Hance did not live to 
see the commencement of a work which would have elicited his 
most lively interest and approval. 
“ Believe me, &ec. 
“(Signed) ©. J. MaxiMowicz. 
“The late Baron Richthofen, the dine authority on the 
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sian ~< h f China, was no appreciative of the 
