✨ Official Correspondence Seed Exchange
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Enclosure.
Mr. MERIVALE to Mr. HERBERT. India Office, S.W., 11th August, 1871.
SIR, I am directed by His Grace the Secretary of State for India in Council to acknowledge the
receipt of your letter of the 27th ultimo, and copy of Despatch from the Lieut.-Governor of British
Honduras, announcing the steps which he has been obliging enough to take in compliance with the
letter from this Department of the 17th April, to obtain seeds of mahogany and logwood for His
Excellency the Governor in Council at Madras.
Lieut.-Governor Cairns has suggested that a continued interchange of the valuable vegetable
productions of the British Colonies should take place, and I am to request that you will move Her
Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies to inform the Lieut.-Governor that such a system is
already practised, with the full approval of the Secretary of State in Council, by the Officers who
preside over the several forest administrations in India. I am to state that any application for such
interchange which Lieut.-Governor Cairns, or any other Governor of Her Majesty's Colonies, may
address to the Governor-General of India, through the Inspector-General of Forests, or to the
Governors of Madras and Bombay, through the Conservators of Forests under those Presidencies,
will be promptly and cordially responded to.
Robert G. W. Herbert, Esq,. &c.
I am, &c.,
HERMAN MERIVALE.
Extract Letter from T. Anderson, Esq., M.D., Superintendent, Royal Botanical Gardens, Calcutta,
to the Secretary to the Government of Bengal. (No. 106, dated 27th December, 1866.)
Paragraph 4. * The seeds from the West Indies should be packed in dry pounded
charcoal, a layer of capsules containing the seeds alternating with a layer of charcoal, and in this
method of packing the box should be as air-tight as possible. For the sake of experiment, one box
should contain seeds without the capsules, but also packed in charcoal. It would be as well to send
a small quantity of seeds packed securely in paper alone without any box. The seeds should be taken
ripe from the trees, and should be packed dry, but without being exposed to the sun. All unnecessary
detentions should be guarded against, especially at Southampton. If possible, the seeds should be
transferred from the West Indian mail steamer, to the steamer of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam
Navigation Company. Two despatches of seed from Jamaica might be made according as the seeds
ripen, in case the first despatch fails. The cases of seeds should be addressed to the Secretary to the
Government of Madras, and advice of their despatch from the West Indies should be sent to him, via
Marseilles and Bombay.
Printed under the authority of the New Zealand Government, by GEORGE DIDSBURY, Government Printer, Wellington.
NZ Gazette 1871, No 66
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Correspondence regarding interchange of vegetable productions and seed packing instructions.
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🏛️ Governance & Central Administration11 August 1871
Seed interchange, India Office, British Honduras, Madras, Botanical Gardens, Calcutta, Seed packing
- Herman Merivale
- Robert G. W. Herbert, Esquire
- Lieut.-Governor Cairns
- T. Anderson, Esquire, M.D.