372 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
thousand numbers. hpmreiriass "ack ree oe his 
collections, as we know them, comm e with May 
done, that the —— of administrative duties leaves little time 
for scientific study, and complained that during a year of the 
euperintendeniahip he had os able to do less real botanical work 
than he could do in a month as a travelling Inspector ee Schools. 
Anderson died while on leave in October, 1870, but Clarke had to 
continue to officiate in a posts till, . July, 1871, he was relieved 
by his friend Dr. (now Sir) G. Kin ae had been appointed 
Anderson’s permanent successor. To Clarke this was a real and 
lief.’ 
not merely a technical “relief.” On reverting to his inspectorship 
at Dacca he renewed his collecting work with greater zest than 
ever, 
It appears that while collecting generally between 1866 and 
1869, Clarke was particularly attrac ted by the natural family Comme- 
linacea, as to which he made many stile and critical observations. 
His stay at the Botanic Garden, if it gave ~est less time for col- 
d , but 
Hills, of Chittagong, of of the Eastern Sundribuns, and of the Madho- 
pur jungles in Wes ymensingh, an interesting area where low 
was seasinlarrod * the Eircom division, with 
his eliinatiors at Calcutta. From this 
pay his first visit to Chutia Nagpur, to feeaiioal the Western 
Sundribuns, and to spend a holiday of six weeks’ duration botanizing 
in 1871 he had become much interested in ra 
posite. While in Caleutta in 1874 he cnagataa | his monograph of 
