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quick. There was "ep tpn Eon to be done but to abolish his 
office, and reconstitute the n on lower lines. It was no longer to 
: i 
town Min brought the re- "ixdastitatioh of the. gardens within the 
limits of possibility. Of the Commissioners, nominally in charge of the 
gardens, but few remained, and these were willing to resign the title, 
if only they were secured from pecuniary loss in winding up their 
business as seedsmen, and their staff were not turned adrift after a 
decade of laborious years, 
This is Hi what the new arrangement, which will come into work 
with th ear, amounts to. e professional charge of the 
garden falls to PM Henry J. Chalwin, undoubted the most experienced 
horticulturist in the colony, as » departmeut of municipal concern, just 
as it should have been long ago. The director will have only one 


more report to make, anc , we ven 8 f a different kind 
rom the nine sharped-edged documents previously issued. He then 
goes ov the Agricultural Department in Burg Street, as Govern- 
id ent botanist or consulent, or adviser, in matters belonging to his 
et special art ry. er also, we understand, goes the Cape 
; Government a om, if, indeed, it can be got into the limited space 
; available ET should say, it is bound to be housed in quarters 
: - built Keira for it 



= CCXXV.—GOLD COAST BOTANICAL STATION. 







- — An aecount of the establishment of a Botanical Station at Aburi for 
the Colony of the Gold Coast was given in the Kew Bulletin for July 
1891, 

The following further account of this station has been ne 
-to this establishment by the Secretary of State for the Colonies 
COLONIAL OrrickE to Royan GARDENS, Kew. 
Sin, Downing Street, December 22, 1891. 
xS I am directed by the Secretary l State for the Colonies to 
transmit to you, for your information, an extract t from a despatch from 
the Acting Governor of the Gold Coant, regarding the Botanical 
Station at Aburi. 
I am, &c. 
"The Director of the me) RosEkxT G. W. HERBERT. 
Royal Gardens, Kew 



