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for smoking is a work of some technical detail. The tanbaku is 
moistened w ith water and then pressed, secundum artem, into the 
(Signed) J. HORNSEY Casson, 
Tehran, 16 May 1890. 
Dr. Casson to ROYAL GARDENS, Kew. 
My DEAR Sir Tehran, 24th December 1890. 
THREE days ago I received from the Nawab Haider Ali Khan 
of Shiraz, the promised specimens of fruit, flower, and seed from the 
Shiraz district, which I have much pleasure in sending on to you, through 
the Foreign Office. I hope our messenger will make his way safely over 
the mountains to Rescht ; there is a very deep snow, and at an altitude 
of some 12,000 feet it is no easy or safe journey. А year ago I was 
lost at the highest spot for eight hours in a snow drift, having under my 
eharge a poor widowed e with her two young babies, on her way 
home after the death of her husband. On that occasion our courier = 
the dispatch bags for four "Yan in thesnow! However, I hope t 
specimens may reach you safely and be useful. I have not а. the 
writing on the packets, as they are only the addresses of the Nawab at 
Shiraz ; pac of the bags, however, is inscribed Tockhin é Tunbaku, 
* seeds of Tumbaku.” So you may depend upon the authenticity of the 
specimens. 
I shall be interested to hear the result of your researches. 
ours, &c. 
D. Morris, Esq. (Signed) J. HORNSEY Casson. 
The material sent by Dr. Casson required a good deal of soaking and 
ТЕ before it could be it nd in to a form in which it could 
be compa botanicall This wever, having been done, the 
edücimiós was incontestable that he "t of the Shiraz tunbaku was 
nothing more, as had indeed been expected, than ordinary Nicotiana 
Tabacum. 
CXCVI—BOTANICAL ENTERPRISE IN THE NIGER 
PROTECTORATE. 
The following geographical account of the раар 18 кми 
from the Colonial Office List for 1890, 
** The British Protectorate over the teca basa of the Lower Niger, 
the perce of the Rio del Rey at 9° east longitude. Inland, the Pro- 
includes the whole basins of the Lower Niger and Binué up to 
and t bijend the Boussa rapids on the former, and Jin on the latter, in 
