- CorontAn OFFICE to ROYAL GARDENS, Kew. 
H Ao Downing Street, 22nd January 1890. 
bus. v E AM din ected 34 Lord platy Ea to transmit to you, for your 
information, a copy of a Despatch from the Officer Administering the 
. Government of Lagos, reporting the ye of 40 Ibs. of rubber to the 
Crown Agents for transmission to your department, and lam to state 
_ that Lord Knutsford would be obliged if you could obtain a report as to 
Á the market value of this specimen. 
+ lam, &c. 
E : | (Signed) R. H. Meane, 
ka The Director of Kew Gardens. ; 
District COMMISSIONER, BADAGRY, to COLONIAL SECRETARY. 
Ba dagry, November 20, 1889.. 
33 HAVE the honour to inform you that owing to the rains stopping 
— and the sap of the trees drying up, I have only been rable to obtain 40 Ibs. 
* x rubber instead of the 100 Ibs. proposed in his Excellency’s Minute. 
The cost been 17. 19s. 8d., or a fraction less than Is. per Ib. It 
b forwarded at once, so that on my arrival in England I can be instructed 
to give the mode of working ve ful '; should it prove successful. I could 
~ . also attend at Silvertown mid w itness the working of T es and be 
. shown the best way of separating the natural acid from 
— This amount, although B is I think, more ‘haw 3 was supplied by 
— Mr. Millson from one tree, 
TR RU I have, &e. 
pot (Signed) — W. Hicarson, 
Te Bie. Acting District Commissioner. 
" he Solid | inim Lagos. 
: Dituen | Cowinss MISS — Bapaery, to the CotosiAL Secrmrary, Laos. 
se et.] Badagry, 10. December 1889. 
e in Lagos in October. last, I had the honour to submit to his 
not exceeding al. for on to Eagland, for examination as to quality, 
etc. but upto the "x I have i-i obtained 40 Ibs. at a cost ef a 
. I cannot of course say whether the little I have will turn out sister S 
i tory or not, but I have taken the very pacc pains in its preparation, 
ved be found quite free from dirt of all kinds, and I 
i hope of acid 
n Perhaps à ur rese as to iN mode followed by me may be - 
- found us: as it may not well wn in Lagos, elt common  - 
on Por Gold € wi x i ange | 
., When the as first brought to x in gin bottles, E at once strain 
| it into perfectly clean bottles thr a piece of muslin fixed in a frame. 
The bottles are eg allowed to je for 24 hours for the milk to rise. xv 
How posted: into a large tih, seek gut On the fire to boil. oe uch -— 
