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botanists to collect for pe Garden at Schenbrun (the oaly E E Kew that I have 
any fear about), will no doubt resume the business of i wi vin 
ou 
zone, and in that part of the world no places are so prodi uetiv ve as the Cape of Good 
Hope a i 1 Hi 8 
ave 
required by the beim c vegetable. I should wish also to have a collector sent to 
Bueonos Ayres, at present, and till Spain has repossessed herself of her refractory 
Coloni es, this id be thought of. 
hould you be allow val to send to the Cape of Good Hope and to New South 
Wal es, I have - doubt of being able to give such instructions to the governors of 
these countries as will enable His Majesty's collectors to visit at a very reasonable 
expense countrie es 1 узсе ттар. beiden and they will add to the royal collection 
riches beyond the sanguine expectations of those who have had less experience 
in the produce of shoes eni than has m to my lot 
« My dear Sir 
* With real esteem and re 
* 'To W. T. Aiton, Esq., ** Your most faithful and must 
* Royal Gardens, Kew. obedient serv 
* (Signed) omnia: Banks.” 
“ Treasury to the Rt Hon’ble Sir JosEPu Banxs, Bart., K.B., &c., &c. 
“ Sir, Treasury Chambers — 18, 1814. 
* Havine laid before the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treas 
the communication which you were so good as to make to me, by the desire of the 
Earl of гучнае а upon the subject of the appointment of fit and erso 
proceed to the ope and elsewhere, for the purpose of collecting 
and curious pla r His Majesty's Botanie Garden at Kew, ved 
rare 
their Lordships commands to express to you their entire concurrence in the sugges- 
tions contained in that communication, and their approbation of the persons recom- 
mend у you for this service, and that their Lordshi ips will nominate them thereto 
accordingly, and that their Lordships feel much grati y, and will most readily 
adopt your offer of auditing the пате р home by the collectors, and of certi- 
. fying them to the Treasury, when sent e for their Lordships’ approbation. And 
ips 
Aiton, the ares of His — Botanic Garden at Kew, such s 
accountable only 9 xoa Lordships’ Board. And жаң with a view to provide for 
such outfit of the persons appointed on n this service as be tr their Lord- 
hips Mr. Spur 
upon his унш edd the sa 
* And my Lords hav rer ¢ co to oop me to request that you will have the 
ess тч give iier immediately from yourself or through Mr. Aiton, as you 
most expedient, such instructions to the collectors for their governance 
ar, 
sat result as may reasonably be expected from their employment in it, 
which or die their Lordships have directed them most implicitly and punctually 
to observe and obey. 
* Conformably ur your suggestions with regard to the passage of these persons to 
the first objects of their destination, my Lords have requested the Lords of the 
pre Pee ^ ЕЕ : 
м шо 
~ to attend the oxen, and also to furnish the Collectors with the usual order upon the 
_ boors for boorspans of Oxen, and if they крест oo Ват limits of the Colony, 
