
My: own work has, I feel, been the much humbler one of continuing 
tradition which, by the wisdom of the Government, has made Kew as 
much an imperial as a local institution. The services to which you 
allude have become so much a matter of goin that paii scarcely seem 
ss any exceptional merit. Their reward, i L deserve e 
lf in the kindness n ama iy which 
of its Colonial correspondents. Ie coe 













t. merely for a limited section of the home community, bur. for the 
relfare: and eradication of intelligent persons in every part of the 
= 
». 

Kew has undoubtedly in the last half-century been inont in 
effectin ng much for the advancement of many material interests. Its 



eh hich i n able to afford to the cultivation of 
in England beyond the seas. In Au yeu. with its splendid 
ies, energetic scientific societies, and fi e Botanic ardens, it 
de soca of the best home. intellectual life which must always | 
its warmest s sympathy. : ‘ 
I am, &c. 
(Signed) W.T. TursEtLTON-Dxzn, 
Director. 
s Ww. H. Warren, Esq, 
—— Honorary Secreta ary, 
Royal Society of New South Wales. 



| Ocxxxv OIL PALM. FEE o 
(Elei gissemen, Vulg. 


esu oft palm is ent the most valuable of the indicium 
1 ts of. West Africa. From the perica rp of the pie the well- known 
Im oi M is prepared, while fein: the kernel of the nuts another 
tracted, scarcely less extensively used. According to Si 
loney y (Forestry of West Africa, p. 57), “although the palm 
du isted since 1 e pal 
i the Gold Coast did 






ith the produetion of fi 
| t t may, rautan be mentioned that the S 
sof this new industry are not v very hopeful. The 



