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A nmber of the drawing s are still incomplete and T ’--he 
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'like hem to be finished 'Then fjae plants flower again^Thi’a would take 
perhaps two years* ShouId however the Governs ent b^ unwilling. to afford 
this money for - this work T think his salary could be paid out, of th& 
Gardens Vote subject tc the approval of hue Garden's Committee* 
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X*- Sir 1 G.King is still at work, He did the fif st part 
of .the work at no cost at all to the Government but on the contrary 
paid a considerable amount of the costs of the worls out, of his own 
pocket*The Bengal Society lid rest till they could no le \af- 
fer^d it,when the Government here voted them a sum of money to Complete 
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£h6 work that, TJr.Kine, was» Jioinfe. Therefore +Jr<6r* should toe no Juore 
expenses coiroecieto with tJais as X havfe alreadf/ ^xplaineii. (paraAof si.y 
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letter). 
Para % & 3 noted • 
Para 4* i-&~pai-d^i©r—out—oi^ihfc'—ffjCO—hoiicrariiim 
I do not think there will be any more expenses till the Booh 
is published .1 do not know of any* 
Para.5* A good deal more of the Materials has to be finished,and it is 
being done by Sir George King aided by others of ,.th6 be known 
Botanists of the lay,&§ . these gentlemen are not being paid anything, an 
as above ‘stated the actual costs of the rest of the work have been 
paid this hardly affects the Government here* 
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5*~ As soon as the Materials are completed, the publication of the 
Book-form can be commenced#*T have estimated it as five years hence* 
T’he Government asked me to get the cost of the Ceylon ^lora 
and X did so.Estimating a little higher owing to our'^1ora being- very 
much larger(see 50X4/03). 
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B, - As X was not one of .the original workers and the whole matter 
was started before I came to the Bast, X hardly think X should have .he 
right to take the responsibility and the profits (which presumably 
vould be mine entirely) without consulting Sir George King who has 
one so much of the work. X do not know whether .this Would not be 
prohibited as a commercial undertaking according a recent, regulation,b 
but perhaps that point might be got over. 
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