3B 
Tel p /one : 
(/ Kensington 6323. 
telegrams: — 
Nathismos, Southkens, London. 
BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY), 
Cromwell Road, 
London, S.W.7. 
8th July, 1937. 
Dei r Comer, 
Many thanks for attending to the plants left hy 
Kingdon-Ward . He seems to have been very unlucky with his 
present expedition. 
As Taylor was away I made enquiries about your 
Artocarpus and found he had left an answer (which I enclose) 
and that he had arranged for some extracts to be typed out. 
As the typing was not completed I waited a day or two and 
now send them on. 
I hope you w r rote to Svedelius in a rather less 
patronizing manner about Merrill & Go. than you did to me. 
I fortunately know your style but I found it had a bad 
effect on Taylor and probably accounts for your having had 
no reply from Sprague . 
If you consider for one moment the time when your 
fruits arrived and also a very necessary precaution always 
taken with such material you might perhaps see that there 
has not been an undue delay in implementing our promise to 
you at least. 
With kind regards. 
Yours sincerely. 
E.J.H, Corner, Esq., 
Botanic Gardens, 
Singapore, 
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. 
J. BAMS BOTTOM, 
(keeper of botany) 
