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subjects were treated of. The article on Malayan drugs, printed 

 many years ago in the "Straits Medical Journal " by the Director, 

 and long unprocurable, was reprinted and very much augmented. 

 Investigations were also made into the action of copper sulphate 

 on water weeds, and especially on the laterite-forming Bacterium 

 Crenothrix, and an account published in the Bulletin. 



The Artist continued making drawings of important plants, 

 and towards the end of the year, in the rainy season, made a large 

 series of drawing of the soft Fungi, of which little or nothing is at 

 present known, and which are almost impossible to preserve even 

 in alcohol in this country, so that coloured drawings are the only 

 way of recording and identifying them satisfactorily. Of a feu- 

 drawings sent previously to Kew of these plants all proved to be 

 unknown previously to science. A few more supplementary lecture 

 diagrams were also made by the Artist. The lectures to the 

 Medical Students were delivered bv the Director from September to 

 December twice a week, as on the previous occasion. 



Agri-Horticultural Show. 



13. — The Annual Exhibition was held this year at Singapore, 

 and was probably the largest Exhibition of the kind ever held in 

 the East. The exhibits from all parts of the Peninsula were 

 remarkably good on the whole, and the Exhibition was attended 

 by very large crowds of visitors and some delegates from Java, 

 India, Ceylon, Burmah and other places. The secretarial work of 

 the Exhibition, which was very heavy, was effected by the Director 

 and Mr. J. S. Isaac, Clerk of the Botanic Gardens Department. 



Economic Garden. 



14. — This part of the Gardens has steadily increased in 

 usefulness and importance, not only to the local community, but t: 

 all the tropical parts of the Empire, and indeed it would be difficult 



—3 utility. All tropical plants are experimented 

 1 • '1 there is or is likely to be an excep- 

 in considerable quantities. It may 

 give some idea of the work carried out if it is mentioned thatdunng 

 the year plants or seeds have been despatched on sale to countries 

 as remote as the West Indies, including Cuba, Samoa, Honolulu, 

 Queensland, New South Wales, West Australia, Fiji Islands, 

 Philippines, New Guinea, China, Hongkong, Borneo, Sumatra, 

 Java, India, Ceylon, Egypt, Lagos, Nigeria, and Madeira, * 

 the local demand from the Colony and Federated Malay States 

 increased enormously. J 



Apart from the ordinary interchange between gardens, so 

 hZl Int- the ,y ork increased that the addition of five men as 

 been sanctioned for the new year. At the present time the labour 

 employed is quite inadequate for the due maintenance of the 

 fJ^rL"'- n °, r ls i* P? ssib le, even at a time when agriculture is deve- 



hile 



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urgently required. A request for an addi 



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