§ MR. BOLAND (Kerry, S.)To ask the President of the Board of Agriculture whether, pending a decision as to the renewed publication of the Kew Bulletin, steps will be taken to complete the volume for 1901, which is still incomplete, in view of the quantity of unpublished matter which had been prepared for the Bulletin.
§ MR. BOLANDTo ask the President of the Board of Agriculture if he can explain why the alleged increasing demands upon the scientific staff have been held to justify the discontinuance of the Kew Bulletin, seeing that the present director, in his evidence before the Committee of Botanical Work, spoke of the Bulletin having become a continuous record of Kew work in all its aspects; and whether, in view of the fact that information formerly given in the appendices is still published year by year, it is proposed to continue the issue of appendices to volumes which have no existence.
246 (Answered by Mr. Ailwyn Fellowes.) The issue of the Kew Bulletin as a separate publication is not of the same importance as was formerly the case, inasmuch as some of the most important articles from an economic point of view are now printed in the Journal and leaflets issued by the Board of Agriculture. The information given in the appendices to which the hon. Member refers has a value quite independent of the Bulletin itself, and, whatever may be the decision arrived at with regard to further issues of that publication, it will doubtless be of advantage that that information should be made available for the use of the public in one form or another. I shall be glad to consider the hon. Member's suggestion as to the completion of the volume for 1901 in connection with the further investigation of the matter which I have undertaken to make.