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Enclosure to Cespatch No.457 of the

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REC 10 NOV 02'

October, 1902.

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HONGKONG,

3rd October, 1902.

:

Your Excellency,

We understand that the post of Superintendent

of the Botanical and Afforestation Department has become, or is

about to become vacant through the retirement of Mr.C.Ford, and

that the Colonial Office intends to fill the vacancy by appoint-

ing a gentleman from home.

We would respectfully submit to Your Excel-

lency the name of Mr.W.J.Tutcher, at present Acting Superinten-

dent of the Department, with a strong recommendation that he

should receive the substantive appointment, and we do so the

more confidently because we believe Mr.Tutcher is eminently

qualified to fulfil all the duties of the position, and has a

record of eleven years' faithful service in the Colony.

Coming from Kew, where he had been for the

previous three years employed in the Royal Gardens, Mr.futcher

entered on his appointment as Assistant Superintendent here in

1891. His long term of service has enabled him to acquire a

thorough knowledge of the Eotany of the Colony, and he is at

-present preparing a Descriptive Supplement of over 300 species

to the "Flora BongKongensis."

For