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Departments with a view of ascertaining where, in the future, cotton cultivation promised a success.
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3. The results were in many cases encouraging and were published for public information though as is usual in pioneering work cold water was mostly thrown on them by the Governments concerned.
4. All that Kew can do in such matters is to lead the way by experiment. I must point out that the supply of seed in bulk for further development requires an organisation of an entirely different kind, which Kew does not possess.
5. In the present case the seed required on local advice, as to which I take no responsibility, is Indian. It is obvious that the double transit out and in is undesirable and unnecessary and I suggest an application to the officiating Reporter on Economic Products to the Government of India, Indian Museum, Calcutta.
I am,
Sir,
Your obedient servant →
W. T. Thiselton-Dyer