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us we have already d we do not believe that an artificial wil 
ever supersede the natural acid 
The followiny official correspondence has been received on the same 
subject : —- 
COLONIAL Orrice To Royat Garvens, Kew. 
Downing Street, 
SIR, June 23, 1894. 
I AM directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to 
iransmit io you, with reference to your letter of April 19th last, the 
accompanying copy of a despatch from Her Maiesty’s Ambassa dor at 
Berlin, addressed to the Earl of Kimberley, respecting the artificial 
inoipoten of ip acid at the Manufactory of Chemical Products at 
nn, in Alsac 
The Direc (Signed) ME HL Maps. 
Royal € Eai Kew. 
Her Masesty’s AMBASSADOR AT BERLIN TO THE FOREIGN OFFICE. 
My ES Berlin, — 13, 1894. 
reference to your Lordship’s despatch, 9, Commer- 
cial, of We 28th April last, I have the honour to state pm " according 
Products at Thann, in Alsace, in the artificial production of citric acid. 
a Director of that establishment states that the result of these experi- 
ents increases the prospect of u eae success, but that certain 
difficulties have been encountered which must be overcome before there 
can be any question of the mercantile dinis of the process in 
question. 
I have, &c. 
The Earl of Kimberley, K.G., (Signed) E. B. MALET. 
&c. &c. &c. - 
CCCXCV.—SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE TO THE FLORA 
OF BRITISH INDIA. 
This note contains references to be added to the Flora of British a: 
rom the paper of RorrLER amd WirrpkNow, 1803, for which w 
are indebted to Mr. C. B. Clarke, F.R.S., and Dr. Sta tapf. 
The German Missionary Rottler travelled from ier uy 24 Sept. 
1799, to Madras, and returned to Tr anquebar 16 Jan.1800. He wrotean 
account, noticing about 250 plants, giving descriptions sof the new species 
and of one new genus, which was published in Neue Schriften der 
Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin IV. {1803} pp. 180- 
2: 4, tab. /7I.-V., by Willdenow; who added a Er cg of his own, 
ontaining improved diagnoses, new names, &c. s paper is not in 
the Kew Library, and Mr. Daydon J ackson, the PETA of the “Index 
Kewensis," knows of only two copies in England. 
