pull down the Herbarium, but he was prepared te 
{sanction IBMMMaa^ three-eighths of my prepoeal 
name 1 Jr the eroeyien of the laboratory ae a twe¬ 
et cried building* Unfortunately for the Department 
upon the outbreak of war erection was postponed, t© 
be postponed again In * T ardent* 0 769/14 by lettere 
d&jred 16th August, 1815 and 10 June, 1916, the last 
suggesting the end of the war ae the time for 
erecting it* 
4, By a mueh regretted mischance we now stand 
exposed to another postponement. 
* 
5. On Menday last, the 8th., the Gardens 
Cenmittee instructed me to urge as strongly as 1 
ean that the $ 80,000 wanted should be allowed 
to stand in th? Budget estimate* for 1920, that 
the laboratory may be erected. If the Government 
such 
can do this it will be aw act An I deem Lord 
Miftner indioat ad in hi#* di spat eh on scientific 
research which w&e published in the Gazette of 
August 8th., 1919, p« 1166-13.67. 
6. Hot only on these grounds but to avoid 
« 
wests should the laboratory be built. It was 
pointed out in ray letter of 5th. February 1914, 
(file 769/14) that the appointment of an Assistant 
Director, who should be a student of the Lower 
Plants necessitated a laboratory for hio studios; 
and it has always been understood that the justi¬ 
fication for poetponing the erection of the building 
lay in the fact that the services of the AssiBtaht 
Director had bee i put at the disposal of the 
far office for the duration of the war* Low that 
the Assistant Director, ^ajor Chipp, i* at work 
it is the bounden duty ef the Colony to itself 
as well a® to him to supply the laboratory in 
