in view the short-sighted» poliey of depending ono a 
Mire aot the staples for the Colony rae i i tà be hopied tat 
patei exhortation of -his s -Excellency ih e Governor that the 
future of British Honduras must depend on its ss aa development 
will be borne in mind, and that in time this ie i will become, what it 
is eminently fitted by its climate and fertility to be, t the. ieden 
Central America, THAE, 
CCCCXXXV. —GOLD COAST BOTANIC STATION. 
The e progress s made in establishing a Botanic Station at Aburi.on 
Gold Coast has been noticed in the Kew Bulletin. -The site is in "ue 
hills, at an elevation of about 1400 feet, overlooking the sea-board, near 
Accra and Pram Pram. In addition to its suitability ^ the growth of 
economie plants Aburi is a valuable sanatarium for European invalids. 
Crowther very successfully carried out the object of his mission id 
gei em a hp ei repo nee Mi onte a p. PR siae 
he work of the Aburi_ td xcellent rop ca 
à E: Las d Ue i complished in cal 
ise at the Go oast is “entirely aus to the Gor nO, his 
ire eucy Sir Wilton” Brandford Griffith, K.C.M.G. He has given 
warm and consistent support to the station and personally chin 
in every way the efforts of the curator. 
'The most recent information is contai tained in the follo owing 
spondence, In this an account is’ given | of a recent ` 
station by Mr. A.M. Ashmore, an officer of the Ceylon” Civil 1 Service, 
lately Acting-Colonial Secretary at the ‘Gold Coast :— 
COLONIAL OFFICE v. B GaiivEne, Kivi, puo P" 
34th I 
Erf directed b y | Marquess wz ipon to transmit ee or 
your perusa oat and for an a you may have to offer, a despatch 
from the Governor of the Gold Const Colony, with its enclosure, 
respecting the Botanical isl at Aburi. 
am, &c, i ; 
The Director, (Signed) ; AUR cma 
Royal Gardens, Kew. + tem 
GOVERNOR or THE GoLD oes to COLONIAL. rri. | 
2 Government House, Cape Coast Castle, 
My Ice», 20th Noveniterl 1894. 
Brine desirous .of -haying the: Botanical Statio: at Aburi 
ipo by. an officer of experience, towards the. end of ‘last month 
