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APPENDIX А. 
The following Rules drawn up for the protection and “qn = 
the Botanical Station, St. Lucia, даа be usefully placed on record 
the guidance of other Stations : 
RULES FOR THE PROTECTION AND a or THE Sr. LUCIA 
BOTANICAL STATION 
1. The Governor may from time to time appoint some . who 
shall have ca general supervision and control of the Stat 
2.— Mig ) The Governor may from time to time appoi „з am number of 
persons to be a ey mittee to advise on matters connected with the 
working of the Sta 
he supervising officer shall be chairman of suck committee. 
3. The committee shall meet for business at least once a month in 
the gardens, and at such other times and places as may be appointed by 
the chairma 
4. The э, Жы айы, of the committee shall at all times have free access 
to the gardens, and may make у = they desire of the Curator 
touching the working of the Stat 
The — of the sedie m ‘shall note in a book to be kept for 
the purpose, and to be called the Suggestion book, any circumstances 
connected "with h the Station which it may be desirable to. bring to the 
notice of the committee. 
. All communications and directions from the committee to. the 
Curator shall.be made through the Chairman of the committee. 
The Curator. 
7.—(1.) The Curator shall, as far as possible, place himself in a 
position to afford information respecting. the cultivation, use, and 
economic value of plants, and of all other matters which come within 
the purposes of a Botanical Station 
(2.) If he is unable to afford information in any such matter at the 
time it is sought, he e shall make a ve thereof and endeavour to obtain 
and supply it as soon as possible a 
e shall forward to the supervising officer of the Station, within 
preceding month, as to any new nts or seeds received, as to an 
matters of interest connected with the station or the agriculture of the 
colony generally, and drawing — to any subject of interest in 
any botanical or other publicatio 
9. He shall forward to the боны during the month of January in 
each year, an Annual Progress Report, extending the information in his 
monthly memoranda to the whole year. To “this report appendices 
› giving— 
(1.) A list of books and publications onan to the Station. 
(2.) A list of tools ready for distribution. onging to the Station. 
