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Captain Alcock, I.M.S., who accompanied the expedition as Surgeon 
Naturalist. Dr. Alcock brought back a most interesting collection, 
which is now being worked up by Mr. Duthie. The result will be 
published, I understand, in a volume on the Natural History of the 
Pamir Boundary Commission, which it is intended to issue. 
Castilloa elastica i in Trin iad Mr. F H. Hart, F.L.S., Superintendent 
of x Botanic Gardens at Trinidad, writes :—** We have raised and sold 
some 10,000 Castilloa this year, and we have a léntduod in Tobago, 
meg one here ready for bleeding." 
Minor Industries in Bermuda.—In the Report for 1895, on the 
Colony of Bermuda [Colonial Reports, Annual, 1896, No. 166], the 
following partieulars are given respecting its cultural industries :— 
The principal exports to the United States were fenes valued at 
44,4241., a decrease compared with the preceding year of 990/., an 
compared with 1893 a decrease of 15,4467., lily bulbs, erst at 28,3701; 
an increase compared with the precedi ng year of 11,248/., and potatos, 
26,495/., an increase of 7,7780. 
The decrease in value of the onions exported during 1895 was due to 
a fall in price in the New York market, the igs ‘having been much 
larger t than that of the prec eding year. In the case of potatos the 
may be accounted for 5y the larger crop del and in the case 
of | lily lily bulbs the increase wes due partly to better prices and partly to 
larger crops. 
Director of Agriculture, Zanzibar.—In the Kew Bulletin for the 
current year (pp. 80-36), some account is given of th er rene state 
enterprise on the east coast of a. As will be seen rag 
the following communication an important step has now been taken by 
the Government of Zanzibar in the appointment of a Director of 
Agriculture :— 
DIRECTOR OF AGRICULTURE, ZANZIBAR, to ROYAL GARDENS, Kew. 
H. H. The Sultan of Zanzibar’s 
Government eae Zanzibar, 
DEAR Sir, October 1, 1896. 
Tur Government ét Zanzibar have decided to appoint a Director 
of Agricolan and have selected m 
object in creating the poit is rd improve, where possible, ^ 
. nehod under which the aene of the country is now carried o 
and to endeavour by experiment to discover some new product that ia 
to a certain extent take the place of cloves. The Government desire that 
the work so admira rably begun by Sir John Kirk when he was Consul 
General there, and since Hep may - continued. 
I am, ME 
W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, Esq., C.M. rt &c., R. N. LYNE. 
Director, Royal Gardens, Kew 
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