752 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 13TH SEPTEMBER, 1884.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 330.
The following letter from Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Saigon is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 13th September, 1884.
W. H. MARSH,
Colonial Secretary.
SAIGON, 1st September, 1884.
SIR,-I have the honour to inform you that the British S.S. Harter reports the true position of the wreck of the German Schooner Annie to be 71⁄2 miles E. S. from Cape Taiwan..
I have the honour to be,
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY,
&c.,
&c.,
&c.,
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
CHAS. F. TREMLETT,
H. B. M. Consul.
HONGKONG.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 331.
The following report from the Superintendent of the Botanical and Afforestation Department, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 13th September, 1884.
W. H. MARSH,
Colonial Secretary.
BOTANIC GARDEN,
9th September, 1884.
SIR,-As it will probably be of considerable interest to His Excellency the Governor and the Government to know what has been achieved in providing a Herbarium for the use of this Department, the Colony, and China generally, I have the honour to report that I have just completed the re-arrange- ment of the specimens and I find there are 2,051 species of plants represented in our dried collection. These I commenced to collect soon after my appointment to this establishment, and the work has been continued whenever I could avail myself of any opportunity. As it was impossible to find time in the day-time a great deal of this work was done by night. About a couple of years ago I commenced to re-arrange and re-label the collection according to the new system adopted in the Genera Plantarum, a great work, just completed, on which Sir JOSEPH HOOKER and Mr. BENTHAM were occupied for upwards of 20 years.
References have been made to the Genera Plantarum for the position in the system of every one of these 2,000 species and new labels have been written for each specimen.
The following sample exhibits the manner in which each specimen is labelled :-
57. Leguminosa.
Subordo 1.
Papilionacer.
Tribus 2. Genisteæ.
Crotalaria, Linn.
albida, Hezz.
var.
West River, below Tung Chun. 18 May, 1882.
Coll. C. F.
These specimens are accommodated in eight cabinets which have been made with a special view to preserving the contents as far as possible from damp. By an alteration in my office arrangements I have been enabled to place the cabinets in a room to themselves where a fire can occasionally be made for expelling the damp. The specimens are conveniently arranged for reference by any one who may wish to make use of them in botanical studies. A small collection of botanical works of reference is also adjacent to the herbarium.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
CHARLES FORD, Superintendent, Botanical and Afforestation Department.
The Honourable W. H. MARSH, C.M.G.,
Colonial Secretary,
SC.,
&c.,
&c.