ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION, 
Nos. 113-114. | MAY and JUNE. [1896. 
DXIIL—BOTANICAL ENTERPRISE IN BRITISH 
HONDURAS 
A botanie station was established in the neighbourhood of Belize, in 
British Honduras, by the Governor, Sir Alfred Moloney, K.C.M.G., in 
1892 (Kew Bulletin, 1895, p. 10). The first curator was Mr. James 
MeNair, who, under the supervision of the same energetie Governor, 
had laid the foundation of the successful station now existing at Lagos 
in West Africa. ; 
Sir Alfred Moloney has recently issued a “ Brief Outline of the 
Botanical Efforts of the Government of British Honduras.” This gives 
an interesting account of the work of the station and of the part it is 
intended to play in aiding the economic development of the colony. 
Hitherto British Honduras has been largely dependent upon the cutting 
of mahogany and logwood. e former has, however, serionsly declined 
of late years owing to the competition of so-called “mahogany” from 
West Africa. It is evident that other industries are n ry for the 
welfare of the colony, and the Governor has rightly drawn public 
. d " jve to 
ed by t ed railway considerable 
development will take place in the cultivation of coffee, cacao, fruit, and 
Governor's statement :— 
In 1882 the question of establishing in Belize or in some other part 
of the Colony a Botanic Station was put forward by Sir Joseph Hooker, 
K.C.S.1., C.B., then director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, for the 
consideration of the Colonial Office. 
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