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As the result of the conference held at the Colonial Office with 
the four West African Governors on the 12th September, 1893 
(Kew Bulletin, 1893, pp. 363—365), a successful effort to start a 
Botanic Station in Sierra Leone was made by Colonel Cardew, 
C.M.G., in the following year. The subjoined correspondence 
indicates the steps taken to attain that object. 
COLONIAL OFFICE TO ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
Downing Street, 
10th September, 1894. 
SIR, 
I am, &e., 
The Director, (Signed) JOHN BRAMSTON. 
Royal Gardens, Kew. 
Government House, 
Freetown, Sierra Leone, 
: 9th August, 1894. 
My LORD MARQUESS, 
I HAVE the honour to submit for your lordship’s approval, 
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h a copy of the scheme. It would embrace the 
establishment of a botanic garden, machinery for the proper 
preparation of coffee and cocoa for the market, a coffee plantation, 
indusirial farming and annual agricultural shows. 
3. In view of the fact that there is now no longer any possibility 
of extending our protectorate, as it is hemmed in by French 
