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XLII. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



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Mk, G. G. Auchixleciv, B.Sc, Agricultural Superintendent, 

 Grenada, has been appointed by the Secretary of State for the 

 Colonies, on the recommendation of Kew, Assistant Director and 

 Chemist in the Department of Agriculture, Mauritius, 



Mr. F. Birkijs'Shaw. Assistant Agricultural Superintendent, 

 St. Vincent {K, B. 1912, p. 350), has been appointed by the Secre- 

 tary of State for the Colonies, on the recommendation of Kew, 

 Instructor of 

 Mauritius. 



Agriculture 



in the Department of Agriculture, 



Mr. George Farmer has been appointed by the Secretary of 

 State for the Colonies, on the recommendation of Kew, 

 Agricultural Instructor for the Coast Region of the East Africa 

 Protectorate. 



Mr 



Royal Botanic Gardens, has been appointed, on the recommenda- 

 tion of Kew, a Sub-Inspector for the purposes of the Destructive 

 Insects and Pests Acts under the Board of ' " ' 

 Fisheries. 



Agriculture and 



Mr. M. B. Scott, M 



Mr 



B. Turrill have been 



appointed by the President of the Board of Agriculture and 

 Fisheries, on the results of a competitive examination, Assistants 

 in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 



Mr. T. F. Chipp, B.Sc, Assistant Conservator of Forests, Gold 

 Coast (K, B. 1910, 132), has been appointed by the Secretary of 

 State for the Colonies, on the recommendation of Kew, Assistant 

 Director of Gardens in the Straits Settlements. 



Mr. Alfred Redmayne Bell, a member of the gardening staff 

 of the Royal Botanic Gardens, has been appointed by the Secretary 

 of State for the Colonies, on the recommendation of Kew, a Curator 

 in the Agricultural Department of Nigeria. 



Reti 



of Mr. N. E. Brown,- — After forty years' con- 



tinuous service Mr. Brown retired from the post of first-class 

 Assistant in the Herbarium on July 10th, having reached the age 



limit. 



Mr 



occupation has been the pleasure of his life. Like many others, 

 whose love of nature is an early development, Mr. Brown studied 

 natural history generally in his school days, but entomology was 

 perhaps his favourite pursuit. On leaving school he was appointed* 



w^ Saunders's 



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then well-known museum of 



