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are carried on in a limited manner. A regular supply of plant 
and seeds is made to local people interested in horticultural gar- 
dening. Considerable exchange relations are carried on with the 
different botanic gardens of the world. ' 
Publications: Scientific publications of the Royal Botanic Gar- 
den, Calcutta, as also of the Botanical Survey of India are: 1. The 
Annals of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, consisting of mono- 
graphs of families and genera; 2. Shorter accounts of the botany 
of the different areas of India are published in the Records of the 
Botanical Survey of India; 3. The Annual Reports of the Royal 
Botanic Garden, Calcutta, Cinchona Cultivation in Bengal, and 
Botanical Survey of India are regularly published at the end of 
each year. 
There is no arrangement for public lectures but instructions in 
arboriculture are given free of charge by the members o 
staff to the officers of the Municipalities and Public Works and 
other Departments. 
Note: The Administrative Head of this Garden is the Govern- 
also the Quinine Factory of the Government of Bengal. Under 
his charge are also the Lloyd Botanic Garden, Darjeeling, in the 
Sikkim Himalayas and a few other Calcutta Gardens. . 
oyal Garden is again the headquarters of the Botanical 
Survey of India under the Government of India. The Super- 
intendent of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, is ex-officio Di- 
rector, Botanical Survey of India, under whose guidance and 
control the botanical explorations of the Indian Empire are carried 
on by his staff. 
The Industrial Section of the Indian Museum is also under the 
Government of India and its control is under the Director, Botani- 
cal Survey of India. The Industrial Section of the Indian Mu- 
seum is mainly the Museum of economic and applied botanical 
specimens. 
Kyd advocated “establishing a botanical garden, not for the 
purpose of collecting rare plants (although they also have their 
uses) as things of mere curiosity or furnishing articles for the 
gratification of luxury, but for establishing a stock for disseminat- 
ing such articles as may prove beneficial to the inhabitants as well 
as to the natives of Great Britain, and which ultimately may tend 
to the extension of the national commerce and riches ”—an empha- 
sis similar to that made by Sir Joseph Banks for Kew. 
