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2. Mr. Thomson offers to personally deliver “from 10,000 to 
20,000" established seedlings in India for the sum of £1,000. 
After you have consulted the officers of the Forest and Botanical 
Departments I shall be glad to have the opinion of your 
Excellency’s Government on this proposal. 
I have, etc., 
(Signed) CROSS. 
His Excellency the Right Hon 
the Gov ernor-General it: India 
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA to INDIA OFFICE. 
Revenue and Agricultural Department, 
Caleutta, 4th December, 1888. 
MY pnta 
WE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your 
Lardship’s 8 Dope No. 80 (Baya) dated the 20th September 
last, forwarding a copy of a letter from Mr. Robert Thomson, o 
Bogota, i in the Republic of Colombia, South America, in which he 
draws attention to a new species of Hevea (N. O. Euphorbiaceae) 
sa valuable source of rubber, and recommends its experimental 
cultivation in India. Mr. Thomson has offered to personally 
the officers of the Forest and Botanical Departments, to be 
furnished with our opinion on the — in question. 
reply, we beg to say that muss absence of any safe 
h : 
not think it expedient to entertain Mr. Thomso r 
would therefore suggest, for your Lordship’s nini it Spe that 
the Director of the Royal amiga es til should be to place 
We have, etc., 
(Signed) DUFFERIN AND Ava. 
. A. ELLIOTT 
P. P HUTCHINS. 
D. M. BARBOUR. 
The Sihi Hon. Viscount Cross, G. C.B., 
His Majesty’s Secretary of State for India: nt 
