ON A BOTANICAL LABORATORY AT PERADENITA. 365 



I cannot conclude this outline report of my work in Ceylon without 

 expressing my sense of the great kindness which I received at the hands of 

 Dr. Trimen, tlie Director of the Gardens : without this help I should have 

 been able to take but a small advantage, comparatively speaking, of the 

 great opportunities I enjoyed during the few months I spent in the 

 tropics. 



APPENDIX II. 



List of Apparatus and Reagents at Laboratory, Royal Garden, Peradeniya, 



Ceylon. 

 1 large balance with weights. 

 1 small ditto. 

 1 camera, lens, &;c. 



1 Zeiss dissecting microscope, aplanatic lenses, and combination lenses. 

 5 glass measures of 1,000, 500, 250, 100, 50 c.c. respectively. 



Glass jars with covers 



six 15 in. X 3^ in. twelve 8 in. x 3^ in. 



twehe 12 in. x 4f in. eight 5 in. x 4^ in. - 



Bell glasses 



three 12 in. x 12 in. ■ i- ■ a-^ ■ 



o . „ . SIX b in. X 44 m. 



SIX 8 m. X 8 m. * 



8 assorted funnels and box of cut filter papers. 



About 140 wide-mouth stoppered bottles, from 600 c.c. — 60 c.c. 



2 Wedgwood mortars. 

 2 spirit lamps. 



2 large nests of beakers. 

 Several nests of test tubes. 



1 nest of 7 flat beakers and covers (5f in. x 3^ in.). 

 About 1^ gross specimen'tubes, thick glass. 

 6|-plate porcelain photo dishes. 



3 tripods and gauge. 



1 copper still, tin worm (wants repairing). 

 8 graduated pipettes and burettes. 



4 dozen watch glasses. 



About 2 dozen glass capsules and covers (2 in. — 3 in. diam,). 



3 hydrometers 700-2,000. 



1 thermometer- 15° C. =370° C. 



1 „ 0°C. =100° C. 



1 alcoholometer. 



Set of brass cork borers. 

 Assorted test-tube holders and brushes 

 „ corks and A files. 



2 test-tube stands. 



Seagents. 



3 bottles potass, hyd. 

 2 „ chromic acid. 

 1 calc. chloride. 



1 chloroform. 



2 glycerine (large). 



3 iodine. 



2 potass, iodide. 

 1 potass, bichrom. 

 1 picric acid. 

 1 tin vaseline. 



1 thymol. 1 methylene blue. 



1 chloral hyd. 



1 oil of cloves. 



2 acetic acid. 

 1 hsematoxylin. 



1 asphalt varnish. 



1 gold size. 



2 creasote. 



Several small bottles of mineral 



acids (of little use). 

 1 eosin. 

 1 gentian violet. 



