850 BOTANICAL NEWS. 
* The Department of Botany, the First Commissioner states to be 
‘under the immediate direction and control of the Director of Kew 
Gardens; the rtment of Horticulture to be ‘under the imme- 
diate cultivation of the Curator, subject to the orders and control of the 
irector, as the responsible head.’ The Works are carried on by an. 
officer of the Office of Works. My Lords consider this statement to 
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In all matters connected with this department of the establishment, 
whether as regards the hothouses, buildings, or the cultivation of 
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prompt attention. With re 
are not used for the urpose of botanical science, but as nursery 
memorandum of the First Commissioner that, speaking generally, the 
consider it would be conducive either to the publie advantage or to the 
maintenance of that good and friendly feeling which they are anxious to 
see prevaring m every publie department, if, in closing this correspon- 
dence, they were to go in detail into the cases where any disagreemen 
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