| Description | Notes receiving a £50 grant in order to aid Lieutenant Smith in collecting plants as part of the Anglo-German Declination Commission in Eastern Tropical Africa. Smith only expended £8 7s. 7d., and no further charges are liable on the grant. Thiselton-Dyer therefore has £41 12s. 5d., in hand. He encloses five vouchers certified at the Zanzibar Consulate for the expenditure. He proposed to return the balance, but has heard from Theodore Bent, who is considering an expedition to Hadhramaut, Southern Arabia, which is almost totally unknown. Bent is willing to collect plants if he is furnished with a grant of £50 to meet expenses, with some necessities being supplied by Kew. He asks permission of Council to transfer funding from the Kilimanjaro Expedition amount, with an additional grant to make the value up to £50.
W.T. Thiselton-Dyer was awarded a grant of £50 from the Royal Society's Donation Fund in July 1892, 'for the purpose of obtaining botanical collections by help of Lieut. Smith's expedition'. |