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dening. Considerable exchange relations are carried on with the 
different gardens of the world. Mr. W. Mitra, N.D.H., F.R.H.S., 
lal ., is the Curator of the Garden, who is in charge 
of the gardening operation and labor force numbering about 200. 
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. 
here 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. 
ote: The Administrative Head of this Garden is the Govern- 
ment of Bengal, Agriculture & Industries Department. The Of- 
ficer-in-charge of this Garden is the Superintendent, Royal Bo- 
tions 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 superior staff consists of the Industrial 
Section of the Indian Museum and an Assistant for systematic 
botanical work. The present Curator, Industrial Section, is Mr 
S. W. Bal. The Industrial Section of the Indian Museum 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 we 
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. 
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