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AMONG the many activities of the late Sir Arthur Hill not the least was his interest in the botanical welfare of the Dominions and Colonies. In the early days he had made a collecting tour of the high Andean regions of Peru and Bolivia, and this seems to have stimulated his interest in travel, for in after years he visited many widely separated regions and consequently acquired a vast knowledge of tropical and subtropical flora. His first visit to the West Indies was made in 1912, when he represented Kew at the Eighth West Indian Agricultural Conference at Trinidad; afterwards he visited Barbados and the Windward and Leeward Islands. He visited botanic gardens in the various islands, and while appreciating the many fine exotic species, deplored the neglect of native plants in the collections. He was specially impressed with the early work on cacao grafting, and urged continued work on more intensive lines. Incidentally it may be remarked that this work has been developed and is one of the main items on the programme of cacao research which has been undertaken with gratifying results by the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture.
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EVANS, G. Sir Arthur Hill, K.C.M.G., F.R.S. Nature 148, 620–621 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148620a0
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