C
2
is $200
a month rising
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to $250
by
triennial increments of $25 a month with quarters, so that after remaining
here till December, 1904,
I shall be
receiving a salary at which I venture to state it would be impossible at the present time to get anyone from England with the necessary experience to fill the post. The work is of such a character that only
a well-experienced.
analyst can satisfactorily perform it:
the
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During
greater part of the time that I was Assistant Anal jet I was acting
the
serior
position,
in
and in whatever
situation I was placed, much time was devoted to enquiries, which, although not called for by the Government, evere
Colony. Chinese Opium,
of considerable importance to the I attach researches on
Datura Alba, the bool Supply of toughong (para. 15 of the Annual Report for 1897), and Samshur, all of which were completed before my being appointed to the permanent post of Government Analyst. The number
of A