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DXXV.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
Mn. CHARLES Berryman, a member of the gardening staff at Kew, 
has been appointed Acting-Cur ator of the Botanic Station at Aburi, on 
the Gold Coast, during the absence on leave of Mr. C. H. Humphries, 
the curator. Mr. Berryman left Liverpool for West Africa on the 13th 
June last. 
Mr. Joun Henry Horrawp, a member of the gardening cog of the 
Royal Gardens, has been appointed, on the recommendation of Kew, by 
the Secretary of State for ii io Affairs, Assistant Crater of the 
Botanic Station at Duke Town, in the Niger Coast Protectorate. He 
left Liverpool for Old Calabar in the middle of June last 
Mr. WILLIAM Bernice FRENCH, a member of the gardening staff at 
the Royal Gardens, has been appointed assistant at the Municipal 
Gardens at Queenstown, South Africa. Mr. French had been a sub- 
foreman in the orchid-houses and the E sien for the last three years. 
He entered Kew in August, 1891, and had previously served in the 
garden of the late Sir George Macleay, at Bletchingley. He left for 
South Africa in June last. 
Mr. Henry MILLEN, the curator of the Botanic Station at Lago 
has arrived at home on leave a absence. He has been in the service of 
the Lagos Government since 1890. During his absence the duties at 
Ebute Metta will be discharged by Mr. F. G. R. Leigh, eem d curator, 
while Mr. T. B. Dawodu will be in ae of the Gardens a 
Government House. Messrs. Leigh and Dawodu are bot ias ves of 
agos and received horticultural Sinise at the Botanical Gardens, 
Jamaica (1890-93) and afterwards at Kew (1893-94). à 
It will be a matter of deep regret not merely to the riecintónt of 
the colony, which he has served s0 well, but also to the 
that Dr. TRIMEN was obliged, owing to serious ill-health, to retire on 
July 1 last from the post of Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, 
Peradeniya, in Ceylon. Dr. Trimen, who was at the time recond officer 
in the Botanical Department of the British Museum, was appointed on 
tle recommendation of Kew to succeed the late Dr. Thwaites in 1879. 
His administration of Peradeniya, whether from a practical or a 
scientific point of view, has brought it into the front rank of the great 
ro. 
extract may be quoted from an article by Dr. Treub, the Director of the 
Great Botanic Garden of the Dutch iH ecce at Buitenzorg in Java. 
This article, originally published in the Revue des Deux Mondes for 
January last, has been translated in the Smithsonian Report issued 
from Washington 
EXTRACT mok “A Tropical omen Garden,” by Dr. Treub, in 
pm ai Report for 1890, p 
- **'The Royal garden of Pan fis in the island of Ce ylon, was founded 
in 1821. itcated near Kandy, at an altitude of nearly 500 metres 
[1,600 feet], having a moist and hot climate, occupying more than 
60 hectares [150 acres}, and connected as it is with the port of Colombo 
a railway, the garden of Peradeniya possesses conditions most 
