

Copy of a Portion of a Letter from Sir Francis Mo watt, k.c.h.. 

 to Sir Michael Foster, k.c.p.., m.p. 



18329 99. 



Treasury Cliambers, 

 Sir, 1st February 1900. 



I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's 

 Treasury to inform you that They have decided to appoint a Committee 

 " To consider the present arrangements under which botanical work is 

 done and collections maintained by the Trustees of the British ]\Iuseum, 

 ^nd under the' First Commissioner of Works at Kew respectively ; and to 

 report what changes (if any) in those arrangements are necessary or 

 desirable in order to avoid duplication of work and collections at the 

 two Institutions." 



I am to express the hope that you will give Their Lordships the 

 benefit of your services as Chairman of the Committee. 



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I am, Sir, 



Your obedient Servant, 



(Signed) FRANCIS MOW ATT. 



■Sir Michael Foster, k.c.b., &c., &c., &c. 



The following appointments Avere also made at the same time : — 

 The Eight Honourable John, Baron Avebury, p.c, f.r.s., and Frederick 

 DuCane Godman, Esquire, f.r.s., as representing the Trustees of the 

 British Museum; with Stephen Edward Spring Rice, Esquire, c.b. ; Horace 

 Alfred Damer Seymour, Esquire, c.b. ; Professor Isaac Bayley Balfour, 

 D.sc, F.R.S., Queen's Botanist for Scotland ; Francis Darwin, Esquire, m.b., 

 F.R.S., Reader in Botany in the University of Cambridge ; and Sir John 

 Kirk, g.c.m.g., k.c.b., f.r.s., constituting the Committee. 



Benjamin Daydon Jackson, Esquire, Secretary of the Linnean Society, 

 was afterwards appointed Secretary to the Committee. 



