which alone can he justify himself and your 
appointing of him. To appoint the officer, and 
not to furnish him with the mean* of doing 
# 
hi# work will he wa#teful 0 
7*1“ You are aware of the organisation of 
my department, how we hare 
a Direeter whoee knowledge i# ef the Higher 
Plant# 
an Assistant Director, who#© knowledge i« of 
the Lower Plante 
an Aeeietamt Curator whoee ©kill ie in 
practise! Hori*iculture 
a Pield Assistant 
to help 
as 
required 
and that this scheme 
carries 
the 
eerollary 
that 
when the Director is 
replaced 
in 
retirement 
by 
the A#»let ant Director and the highest office 
in the Garden# is occupied hy the expert on 
Lew or pliate, the new Assistant Direetor would 
he appelated for hi# knowledge of the Higher 
Plants, Thu# hare we plannntd to sorer our 
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ground, ffe hare arrange* that in retirement Mr, 
Ridley should write a Handbook to the Higher 
Plants of the ^eaineula, and with ajor Chipp 
at work it la intended to build up ^Material© 
for carrying the Handbook through the Lower 
Plant# too, 
I return from, leare in -&ay next, ideally the 
new laboratory should be in uee then; far with 
my rethrn I hop© to free the Assistant Director 
#o mu oh from administrative duties that the pro 1 
^ress in our knowledge of trho thousand# of 
algae, fungi, and other Lower plants, will be 
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striking. It needs only opportunity and the 
\ 
laboratory to achieve thie: and to wait yet 
another year upon the top of five years of 
waiting will be disappointing. 
