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guilty of these offences against the Bye-Laws, bat the first one 

 that we do detect in the act will certainly be afforded an 

 opportunity of an explanation before the Magistrate. 



I regret in consequence of the distured state of the couutry 

 the usual collecting trip could not be taken, so that we shall be 

 at some disadvantage for the present in not being able to 

 supply seeds and plants to our numerous correspondents as 

 usual, since we shall be quite restricted to the stock on hand, 

 which is not large. 



Mr. Wylie, the Curator, and Messrs. Rutter, Mc Alpine and 

 Bartlett are still with us, and deserve hearty thanks for the 

 manner in which the work has been carried on under very 

 serious difficulties, Mr. Wylie and Mr. Rutter have had repeated 

 attacks of malaria, quite unfitting them at times for duty ; 

 native labour has been scarce, and at times unobtainable, and 

 the time of some of the indentured Indians has expired ; two 

 have re-engaged, and it is quite uncertain when we shall obtain 

 those that were requisitioned for some time ago. Under these 

 adverse circumstances no improvements of any kind could be 

 undertaken, nor the ground kept in the order that we should 

 like to see it. 



My hearty thanks are due to the Committee for their 

 valuable advice and assistance in all matter's connected with 

 the management of the Gardens that have been brought to 

 their notice. 



Packets of seeds have been received 

 the year as under ■ — ■ 



Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta 



,, ,, ,, Mauritius 



Botanic Gardens, Jamacia ... 

 ,, „ Trinidad ... 



,, ,, British Guiana 



Sydney ... 

 „ „ Congo 



From India, Donor unknown 

 Bureau of Forestry, Manila, P.I. 

 Department of Agriculture, U.S. America 

 ,, ,, Transvaal 



,, ,, Maritzburg 



W. E. Ledger, England 

 A. Robertson Prcschowsky, France ... 

 M. Buysman, Holland 

 Reasoner Bros., Florida, U.S.A. 

 C. Sprenger & Co., Naples ... 



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