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: эшиден: сап be deposited оп the embankment near the Harbour 
r’s Office, and should in each case bear some distinctive letter or 
"The Colonial Secretary should also be notified of the number of 
specimen logs supplied by each contributor, 2. their Yoruba names, 
their habitat, and distance from variable e wate 
The supply of dried specimens of the leitet еы = fruit will 
enable the Government to have the trees scientifically na 
ee Atvan MirLsox 
ssistant Colonial берб. агу. 
Acting Colonial Secretary. 
APPENDIX. 
Names of Yoruba Timbers. 
1. Igi egba. 12. Ofun. 
2. Orogbo erin. 13. Osere. 
3. Etinrin, 14. Orosun. 
4. O ; 15. Abadu. 
9. Seta 16. Koriko. 
6. Awun. 17. Eki. 
7. Osun dudu. 18. Osun. 
8. Palufon, 19. Iroko oni koko. 
9. Iroko. 20. p лій. 
10. Ayon. 21. Olugbomdu. 
11. Abora. 92, Akomu. 
Royat Garpens, KEW, to COLONIAL Orricr. 
Sir, Royal Gardens, Kew, November 13, 1890. 
І HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of 
November 10, transmitting a copy of a Despatch from the Governor of 
Lagos with copies of a circular on the subject of the timber of the 
Yoruba 
Ihave despatched copies to the persons to whom I think it is 
likely to be commercially interesting, se I propose to reprint it in the 
fortheoming number of the Kew ctim 
tn; de 
(Signed) W, T. THISELTON Dyer. 
John Bramsten, Esq., С.В. 
Nore on Iroko wood by Sir Alfred Moloney, K.C.M.G. 
The — of the Yoruba country, West Africa, is known on the 
Gold Coast, behind the Accra coast line, as Od m. To the countries 
also the uu of the white ant. It is used largely for [m pur- 
s, being cut and sawn into beams and plank n frames 
shutters, doors, furniture, exterior balconies or v s, fences, 
shingles, &c., are m it. Most of the Basel Mission Houses 
on the Gold Coast dwork, made of it. I was informed 
a Shingle roof of this камы lasted some 20 years. 
