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the
was therefore led to look for
a suitable man among
junior employes of some
the Colonial botanical
establishments.
of
3. I ultimately offered the
appointment to m! Alexander Bremner Westland. Assistant to the Superintendent of the
Botanical Department at
a post to which
Hong Kong, | he was appointed
on the
recommendation of Kew in 1883.
m! Westland is now at home
be transferred if possible to some other appointment.
4. The Secretary of State for India in Council having been pleased to appoint mr Westland, the post which he has held under the Hong Kong Government
will becomes vacant.
I am,
Sis.
your obedient servant,
W. 1. Kisellan Dyer
on
leave and, as
his health had
suffered somewhat from the
climate of Hong Kong, he had
expressed to me his wish to
be