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Farnboro' Park, Hants, in 1886 (not 1896, as misprinted in the 
Botanical Magazine e). The Kew plant was obtained from Messrs. 
James Veitch & Sons, of Chelsea, in 1894. It has bright golden- 
yellow spathes. Paphiopedilum chamberlainianum, a Sumatran 
Meere is well known under the name of C, "ypr ipedium chamber- 
der & Co. Da ap 
Hourly white, overi which are EE in iro It was 
í he dtait. white fes are borne | in a dense raceme 
ruedas ver nalis i isallied to the British A. Pulsatilla. The pla nt 
ped was collected in Switzerland by Mrs. Thiselton-Dyer, 
in 
Report on Economic Resources of West Indies.—As stated in the 
Kew Bulletin for last dco (p. 339), the Secretary of State for 
the Colonies expressed ish that the Memorandum on 
the * Agricultural id. ind Requirements of British Guiana 
and the West India Islands,” which was appended to the report 
of the West India Royal Commission, should be issued in a more 
convenient form. It has accordingly be en issued as an additional 
volume to the Kew Bultetin, with the following prefatory note 
by the Director :— 
“The West Indies possess a large extentiof fertile soil, as well as 
a varied and favoured climate. No part of the eart th’s surface 
seems destined by Nature for a happier Spa y. That con- 
dition is, unhappily, 5 realized. Their condition is far from 
flourishing. Occupying an area nearly as gae as that of the 
British Isles, little ine than 2 per cent. of it is cultivated at all, 
and only 7 per ce pes of that which admits of cultivation. Yet 
they are capable of producing every kind of tropical produce, 
and in the papae countries of the New World possess a ready 
and ample market. For at least a hundred years past no effort 
has been wanting on the part of the home tio seatient to supply 
them with plants from all parts of the world which would form 
the etes of cultural industries 
“To examine the causes of their promi distress, Her Majesty 
the Queen was i oben: in December, 1896, to appoint a Commission 
of Enquiry, composed of men of exceptional ability and experience. 
With the assent of the Lords of the Treasury and of the First 
Commissioner of Her Majesty’s Works and Public Buildings, the 
Assistant-Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, was attached to the 
ommission as ‘Expert Adviser in Botanical and Agricultural 
questions.’ The Commission proceeded to the West Indies in 
“sores of last year, and issued its cian in da following 
e E this ae the document reprinted in the present volume 
added as an appendix. It was drawn up by the Assistant- 
Hieron for ‘ths: use of the Commission, Dr, Morris’s residence 
