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knowledge of what survives of the indige.
regetation of China is of the scantiest
Conceivable amount. Our ig.
nous
attention to the other.
The few plants collected by Mr Ford on
norance of the
(
the west River which he has transmitted to
Hora of so large
0.0
a-
country
a
very serious
Kew include some
species perfectly
to
science
ience. One which he speaks of
ao a
fine
hindrance
to the solution of the problems
-presented by the geographical distribution
of plants in the Northern hemisphere. It
nnot of course
can
be expected that any large
de mand on Mt Ford's time should be made
for partly scientific purposes.
striking tree will be described by Professor
Oliver in the Kew Icones Plantarum
Erythrophlaum Fordii.
do
Besides these there are a
Rubus, a
Sonerila, and a Begonia all perfectly
Bat
that attention to
new to botanists.
Lo
experience has shown the purely scientific aspects of botany
accompanied by the acquisition of
alw a yo
knowledge of
that the trained observation necessary
the
Sir Joseph Hooker is of opinion that
acquisition of facts of this kind.
adds greatly to the credit of the Hong Kong
botanical department and must give
economic importance and
for the one inevitably
ensure o an a
active
interest to IN? Ford's more
-purely routine
attention
duties
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