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there is uow uo room is a collection of ethnographical photo- 

 graphs. This would be a most interesting addition to the 

 section. 



HERBARIUM. 



Five hundred and two mounted and named herliarium speci- 

 mens were received from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, 

 and added to the herbarium. 



ECONOMIC BOTANY. 



This section has been much increased, and could be further 

 extended with advantage if space would permit. A well-made 

 copper oven was olitained from England to take the place of 

 the make -shift locally made one previously in use, and has 

 been found to be of great service in drying and devitalizing 

 specimens previous to sealing them up in the glass topped 

 tins, which have been so successfully used for preserving them 

 for some years past. 



An interesting series of samples from the Trans Ivrian 

 sugar estate was presented by Mr. F. Pvdsford. Specimens 

 of cleaned Perak grown ramie filire, and many other vegetable 

 products were added to the collection. Amongst these mention 

 may he made of some particularly well cured Liberian coffee 

 from an estate near Gropeng, coutriliuted by Mr. P. D. Osliorue. 

 This coffee has been fetching a better price in Singapore than 

 any other produced in the Straits. The high value placed on 

 it is due to its colour, and not to any superiority of the bean. 

 The Liberian coffee grown on the hill at Waterloo Estate ap- 

 parently has a finer bean than any from the plains. Some 

 trees planted by Mr. Cecil Wray, in 1880-1, are well grown, 

 vigorous l)ushes in full bearing, while trees of four years old 

 planted by Sir Grraeme Elphinstone, on land cleared twelve 

 years previously, compare most favourably with bushes of the 

 same age on the low lands planted on newly cleared forest 

 land. 



The collection of Perak woods now numbers 207 examples. 

 It is of more than ordinary interest as it shews that there are 

 so many fine and handsome woods in the jungles besides the 

 four or five kinds known to Europeans. 



GEOLOGY. 



The general collection of rocks and fossils has been arranged 

 and put out in a table case, and the local geological and miuer- 

 alogical collections much extended, owing to the appropriation of 

 another table case to their accommodation. A series of very 

 interesting gold specimens was presented by Mr. W. Bibby, 



