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A e Jamaica establishment can, with a certain amount of 
sf additional clerical assistance, undertake to communicate with and 
“ supply all the hi ae botanical San I do not think it necessary 
Tri 
“A aienea of 20l. a year koa ach Colony, Presidency, or 
“ Island in which a botanical station is established would appear to be 
“ sufficient to provide for the additional expense which the scheme 
** would entail upon Jamaica. 
“ I have, &c. 
“ (Signed) DERBY.” 
As a result of deliberation in the islands concerned, the Secretary of 
State, Colonel F. A. Stanley, now Lord Stanley of Pre eston, was able 
to communicate their acceptance of the scheme in the following —- 
addressed to the Officer administering Government of Jamaica : 
“ COLONIAL OFFICE to OFFICER fossa THE GOVERNMENT 
OF JAM 
y onia Office, Rapin Street, 
ée SIR, e 1886 
i “ I nave the honour to acknowledge the fading of your de- 
“ spatch No. 4 of the 6th ultimo, with reference to the proposal made 
“in 1884, that botanical stations should be established in some of 
the West India islands in connexion with the Botanical Department 
in Jamaica. 
_. “ On the receipt of Sir H. Norman’s despatch No. 473 of the 8th of 
“ti snore 1884, after consulting Sir J. Hooker, Lord Derby addressed 
“* to the Governors of the Windward and Leeward Islands, of Bahamas 
“ and British Honduras, an identical despatch, of which a copy is here- 
with enclosed, transmitting copies of Mr. Morris’s letter of the 20th 
“ of October 1 1884, and recommending the adoption of the scheme in 
those Colonies. 
‘ The Colonies and Presidencies named as follows:—Barbado 08, 
Orasi St. Vincent, St. Lucia, Antigua, St. Christopher and Nevis, 
Montserrat, Dominica, British Honduras, are prepared to establish 
botanical stations and to provide 20/. a year each towards the 
i no ii of the Jamaica biitiin establishment carrying out the 
schem 
TE trust that the Government of Jamaica will see its way to allowing 
“ this scheme to be carried into effect; and in that case it will be 
desirable that you should communicate direct with the Governors 
i or ieee the Windward Islands, the Leeward Islands, and British 
pa 
ka 
“& Ihave, &c. 
“ (Signed) F. A. STANLEY.” 
Jamaica, and. the menace, =n quarantine sasso da maintained against 
os, it was impossible to place the scheme in opera- 
tion at once. At Grenada, however, a small botanic garden is in course 
of being established under the ch arge of Mr. W. R A a — of 
the Botanical Department, Jamaica, who has issued a first report on 
work already done; while under sanction of an ston of the Legis- 
lature, a sum of 100/. was granted to establish a botanical station at 
