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the ‘Bounty’ (1787) for the purpose of introducing the bread- 
fruit tree from the South Seas into the West Indies. Nelson, the 
Kew collector, was amongst pnd sent adrift by the mutineers, 
and eventually died of the exposure. Another Kew gardener, 
James Hooper, who had been staked to Lord Amherst’s Embassy 
to China, remained in Java, and was from 1817-30 Hortulanus of 
the celebrated Dutch Colonial Botanic Garden at Buitenzorg, 
which he helped to create. 
“ Both George III. and Sir Joseph Banks died in 1820, and the 
colonial and other work of os w languished, though it was not 
absolutely abandoned, duri the reign of George IV. and 
William IV. In 1838 the abolition of the whole establishment 
was contemplated by the Government. Public opposition led to 
the appointment of a Tr reasury Committee, the report of which 
was presented to Parliament in 1840. The following paragraphs 
briefly defined the functions of the reorganised establishment :— 
‘A national garden ought to be the centre round which all minor 
establishments of the same nature should be arranged 
From a garden of this kind Government would be able to obtain 
required Sika: its Pipe necessary, as now, to apply to the 
officers of private establishments for advice and assistance.’ 
me Sir W. J. Hooker, F.R.S., was appoi inted Director in 1841 
carry them out. A ‘close ei between Kew and the 
Colonial Office immediately sprang up. A scheme for a complete 
horticultural school. Special attention is given to the preparation 
of gardener s for Colonial service. Some 60 men trained at Kew 
are now in official employment in different parts of the Empire. 
* Relations with the botanical institutions of the pelf oo ae 
Colonies are maintained by semi-official correspondence. 
those of Colonies more a under the control of the Colonial 
Office, the connection is clos 
a scientifie Director; those of the second class by a skilled 
Superintendent; the third class consists of Botanic Stations. 
These last are small and inexpensive gardens, devised in 1885, in 
order to afford sor instruction in the cultivation of tropical 
crops,and were intended to develope the agricultural resources, at 
first, of the smaller West Indian Islands, and subsequently (1887) 
of British Possessions in Tropical Africa. Each is in charge of 
a Curator, who is a gardener trained at Kew. 
“ The principal members of the Kew staff are :— 
“Director : Sir W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, K.C.M.G., C.LE. 
wy PRS, 
*: Keeper of the Herbarium and Library: W. B. Hemsley, 
F.R.S. 
* Honorary Keeper of the Jodrell Laboratory : D. H. Scott, 
Ph.D., M.A., 
e Keeper of Museums : J. R. Jackson, A.L.S. 
