Item 01: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 29 August-19 October 1914 - Page 203
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[Page 203]
I said goodbye to old Seeman & his excellent Flora Vitiensis - He provided me with many a pleasant half hour & opened up new vistas - What a worker he was!! I then went & had aft tea – my last ashore & then to the Botanic gardens & a last look at the fine palms there & the Hibiscus hedges & a fine cassia with pink & white blossoms like a Variegated Bauhinia – generally they are yellow - A pink – Albizzia – scentless – was very fine & very large – Something like to a huge pink hawthorn - The yellow Indian laburnum (Cassia) was in full bloom & there were others I knew not - I saw a climbing Polypody (Fern) & a species of Hare's food fern new to me - I was joined now by the Chief engineer & Herbert - It is curious how very distasteful to these men who deal with mechanics & physics the biological side of life is - They hate the