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Superintendents (Title abolished, 1857) : 
1. W. Kerr (1810-1814) 
2. Alexander Moon (1817-1825) 
3. Andrew Walker (Acting) (1825-1827) 
4, James Macrae (1827-1830) 
5. G. Bird (Acting) (1830-1832) 
6. James George Watson (1832-1838) 
7. J. G. Lear (Acting) (1838-1840) 
8. H. T. Normansell (1840-1843) 
9. W. C. Ondaatje (Acting) (1843-1844) 
10. George Gardner (1844-1849) 
11. G. Fraser (Acting) (March—-December, 1849) 
12. George Henry Kendrick Thwaites (1859-1857 ) 
Directors: 
13. George Henry Kendrick Thwaites (1857-1880) 
14. Henry Trimen (1880-1896) 
15. J. C. Willis (1896-1912 ) 
16. R. N. Lyne (1912-1916) 
17. F. A. Stockdale (1916-1928) 
18. W. Youngman (1930- ) 
Serves as a public park. Open free daily. Source of Income: 
Government appropriations. Library: The old Royal Botanic 
Gardens Library was merged with the Department of Agriculture 
General Library in 1912. Museum: Contains a collection of eco- 
nomic plants of Ceylon. Herbarium: A general Herbarium in 
which the Ceylon indigenous, Ceylon cultivated, and foreign speci- 
mens are in separate covers. Arboretum: 55 acres established in 
1914, a Palmetum of 5 acres in 1916, a Pinetum of 4 acres in 
1921. Research Laboratory. Publications: Trimen has published 
a Catalogue of plants growing in the Gardens, also a “ Hand- 
Guide to Peradeniya Gardens,” which has passed through five 
editions. An “ Alphabetical List of Plants Growing in the Gar- 
dens ” was published in 1926, and a revision of the “ Hand-Guide 
to Peradeniya Gardens” in 1927, by Youngman. ‘“ Annals of the 
Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya,” established in 1901. A 
“Journal of Pure and Applied Botany,’ containing chiefly the 
results of work done wholly or in part in the laboratories and 
herbarium of the Ceylon Garden, or upon materials supplied by 
the Garden. Also a “Circular,” published at intervals. Branch 
gardens: There is a branch garden on the mountain at Hakgala, 
containing a large reserved area of both jungle and grass, and a 
