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REFERENCE No.17. 116

xtract and translation Broththe "MEMORIA" submitted by the Inistry of Agriculture and Commerce to the Colombian Congress, 1920

148- 149.

The Department of Information and Propaganda have received

obtained other products for the purposes in view,etc.,etc.

Various other parties have also been comissioned to collect

«l obtain products suitable for offering abroad. The distinguished

griculturist and learned English naturalist,Mr.K.T.Dawe, who, in

bruer. times, was in the service of the Government and who has been

indefatigable investigator of the resources of our country of

ch he has made a long study on his various scientific excursions

ad in connection with which he has furnished valuable information,

is commissioned, by Res-lution No.110,dated 10th March,to obtain

pecial products intended for use in connection with propaganda

rk in his scientific voyage along the River Magdalena.

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Translation of Resolution.

Resolution No.110 of 1920 (March 105H) by which is appointed a imləsion,ad-honorem ...

The Hinister of Agriculture and Commerce in use of his legal rikituons, and

Considering:

(1) That the Agronomo ingles Mr.Morley T.Dawe projects a journey scientific exploration of the eastern and western margins of the Milena river, from Honda to Barranquills;

(2) That the country has obtained great advantages of the various ursions made by Mr.Dave throughout the country, in which hehas Zied carefully the Golombian flora and the natural resources

has rendered important reports which this office has published distributed, and which have contributed in the Exterior, to the iter Inowledge of the valuable resources of the Colombian soil; (3) Thator the region which Mr.Dawe projects to study hasnot, to the present, been made any scientific study,remaining therefore how much of the riches which there occur;

§ (4) That it is of importance to avail of the solid and extensive

ntific experience of Mr.Dave, for the good of the Nation, and (5) That Mr.Dawe has offered the Goverment, gratuitously his Mices in this respe ot;