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Messrs. JAMES IRVINE & Co. to Roya, GARDENS, Krew. 
Commercial Buildings, Liverpool, 
Dear Sir, December 27, 1876. 
I Aave much pleasure in acknowledging receipt of yours of 
yesterday’s date, asking for a — of the African Oil Palm kernels, 
which I think I can easily proc 
We have an intelligent dorrenpeasiend from Monrovia in our office at 
the moment, and he suggests that the better plan would be to procure 
the bundle just as it is turning ripe, and send it home there and then, 
packed dry in an air-tight barrel. 
m, &e. 
W. T. Thiselton Dyer, Esq., ( Signed)" JAMES IRVINE. 
Royal Gardens, Kew. 
COLONIAL OFFICE to ROYAL GARDENS, Kew. 
SIR, Downing Street, January 3, 1877. 
Am directed by the Earl of Carnarvon to convey to you his 
Lordship’s thanks for your letter of the 26th of December, on the pro- 
overnors of Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast have been 
ques ggested by i 
the details of the. industry which they may be able to collect. 
replies have been received they shall be communicated to you. 
am, &c. 
Dr. Hooker, C.B. (Signed) H. R. MEADE. 
Messrs. JAMES IRVINE & Co. to ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
Commercial Buildings, Liverpool, 
SIR, January 25, 1877. 
FoLLOwING up my last, I now have pleasure in advising you 
that I have “thie day sent off a small parcel of Palm kernels, which was 
specially sel from a large quantity. 
They are as fresh as it is possible to get them under the circum- 
stances, and I hope they will germinate. I am told that they have 
repeatedly been planted, and have always failed to grow ; however, 
with the extra i il of Kew and Kew superintendents, perhaps 
they may grow w 
<p ihe ones I age written for from the Coast will come in the shell 
fresh from the trees, and I should = expect that they will 
iis aoa I expect them in about six wee 
rs, &c. 
W. X. oe: er, Esq., (ium JAMES IRVINE, 
Royal Garden . 
