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It has always been part of the scheme that the еи should Бе in 
some kind of relation to the larger and central Botanical Departments of 
Trinidad and Jamaica. It will therefore be essential that Mr. Morris 
should also visit both those islands in or der to settle the practical details 
Mr. Morris will see his way to soive finally the innumerable petty 
administrative difficulties which have hitherto hindered the effective 
working of the scheme and have given rise to so much correspondence. 
am, &с. 
(Bigned) W. T. TuirseLTON DYER. 
Sir Robert G. W. Herbert, K.C.B 
Roya ёз Kew, to COLONIAL OFFICE. 
al Gardens, Kew, 22nd September 1890. 
vE the honour xd аон the receipt of your lettters of 
the 2nd lid 14th ultimo, informing me that the Governments of the 
Windward and Leeward Islands wil gladly avail themselves of 
Mr. Morris's services in his mission to the West Indies with the view 
to the development of the scheme for the establishment of Botanical 
Stations. 
. I am now in a position to inform you that Mr. Morris will embark 
by the Royal Mail Steamer leaving Southampton on the 12th November 
next, aa in accordance with an intimation already privately Ore 
to Sir W. Е. Haynes Smith he will proceed direct to Antigua, where 
D to arrive on the 27th November. 
After eonsultation with the Governor-in-Chief he will visit sever. ally 
the islands of tbe Leeward group, in which Botanical Stations have been 
or = intended to be established. 
. Mr. Morris will then arrange to proceed to the Windward Islands, 
ma hes will be prepared to meet Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson at an 
ere he may at the time be engaged. Afterwards Mr. Morris 
will visit Trinidad and Jamaica to discuss and arrange any details that 
may be deemed necessary for the supervision of the stations from these 
Conghi as suggested in the third paragraph of my letter of the 2nd June 
ast. 
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6. The Secretary of zie will be interested to learn that Mr. Morris 
will take out with him from Kew, for the hotanical estahlishments in 
the West Indies, several Wa rdian cases of Gambier plants (Uncaria 
d which bave been raised for the purpose at this establishment. 
x . Gambier is an article largely used for tanning purposes. It used 
to wort 107. per ton, and now costs 40/. Hitherto it has been exclu- 
ы produced in the Straits Settlements, but the present state of the 
е appears to justify its extended culture in other parts of the 
tropics. An effort is now being made, in accordance with the usual 
policy of Kew in regard to new cultures, to introduce the Gambier to 
the West Indies, where hitherto it has not been known. 
8. The plants which Mr. Morris will pes out with him will, it is 
hapai, enable the реси аа in this part of the world 
to raise within a reasonable ock sufficiently large to distribute 
to such — as may feel disposed to try it on a commercial scale. 
