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_ plants, and eventually a’ distribution: eT seeds- and: qnte dor 
cultivation among the natives effect 
4. The superintendent, Mr. J: Ma Nai is à very good man for the ae 
post; a hard bie er, with a ere amine s knowledge of his work, in 
which he takes at interé or his selection, as d as for supplies — 
f specimen planis a and se Ma the Colony is pire m much indebted to the — 
Director and Assistant Director of the Royal s, Kew, to whom I 
would ask you to dobe jet enough to supply a copy of the report now © 
transmitted. | ; * : * 
ve, &c. ; T 
v Signed) ALFRED MOLONEY. 
The Right Hon. Lord Knutsford. 
Report on the mee Sration, Lacos, for the Quarter ended - 
st December 1 1887. 
At the end of the first quarter of 1887, the Right Honourable the 
Secretary of State for the Colonies was pleased to approve of a scheme 
for the establishment, as a branch of the Government at Lagos, 
ta ati 
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the local press, and appeared in -— * Lagos Observer" of the 21st o 2 
28th January 1888. To make a start and to have a suitable place for- 
a nursery by the arrival of the vitpefinaide tt the house and compo ound 
t Ebute Metta of Bishop Crowther, a dmirably suited for the pu 
were put in order, and rented temporarily by the Government during 
September quarter. r. MaeNair, who was selected in Jamaica for the 
post of sapehintendane: ^x tel with his family in the Colony on t 
8th November 1887, and Pie crm his present quarters at Ebute — : 
on the 19th January 1888. 
ute Metta, on the mainland, was rat on as the most 
site for such an. Terence . The site there chosen offered | 
features to be viz. good druiniüpe, being m sippe } 
of the Petit 5 which it is approac reached from Lag 
quarter OE ur by steam launch, and half an hour by boat 
parativel; mei prs "reedom from an atmosphere impregnated 
salt, being over three 
m leaf entities i at a 
114 15s. The work of grubbing, Sending levelling, path- 
proceeds irr wire-fencing has been ordered froni Ens 
This fence, when erected, is intended to have a height of 5 feet 
strands, the s lower being placed close together to prevent 
enteri and menti by tee 
resist. M ee «of the white ant. 
