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IN Part 17 of the Journal of the Botanical Society of South Africa (1931) is published an excerpt from the report written by Sir Arthur Hill to the Union Government after his tour in South Africa in 1929, which was referred to in NATURE of Feb. 7, 1931, p. 217. The report states that at present, owing to lack of funds, the Director of the Kirstenbosch Botanic Garden is working single-handed and the garden staff is inadequate. This refers to 1929, and in the present Journal the Gardens have to report a ten per cent reduction of the Government grant which they share in common with other State-aided institutions. On the whole, the moment scarcely seems propitious for the consideration of Sir Arthur Hill's suggestion that South Africa should try to maintain three botanic gardens, with the development of a sub-tropical botanic garden at Durban and a botanic garden with arboretum at Pretoria. It is good to see that the body of supporters for the Kirstenbosch gardens, provided by the Botanical Society of South Africa, continues steadily to grow in numbers. In this same report Sir Arthur Hill presses for the policy of making Table Mountain into a Nature reserve, and it is good to learn that action has now been taken by the Administrator of the Cape Province which gives complete legal protection to the flora and fauna of the Mountain.
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Botanic Gardens in South Africa. Nature 129, 343 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129343a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/129343a0