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adva ncement in
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matter.
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botanical career.
3.
The selection
of.
a n assistant to an
4.
DV? Clark es
Scotch man,
and
officer like m2 Ford who has long been
unrnarried. Dr
Tremen reports that
the sole working head of his Department
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after considering
the
requires
matter Sir Joseph Hooker believes
he is most willing and obleging" and
practically
a
tee totaller. He has had a
that
the curcumstances
of
the
case will
be
best met by appointing Mr D. G.
Clark head gardener
sound horticultural training in every
branch of gardening including
the
management of fruit-trees, and these
more useful
in the service of
would probably
be
acquirements in the climate of Hong-
the Royal Botanical Gardens Ceylon.
The
e moluments of the two posts.
-practically the same.
are
But the status
of the Hong-Hong appointment as
assistant to the Superintendent is
distinctly beṭṭer and will give Mr.
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Clark
Kong than at Peradeniya.
5.
Ser
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If 14 clark accepts the appointment.
Joseph Hooker believes he will find
difficulty in selceting another
man