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4. It is proposed that the Gardens Department shall continue 

 to edit the Bulletin, as they are possibly in the best position for 

 consulting Books of Reference ; but I would here emphasise strong- 

 ly the difference between editing a Paper and writing it. It is of 

 the greatest possible importance that a band of contributors be 

 organized, and this I think could best be done in the Federated 

 Malay States by the Chairman of the United Planters' Association: 

 in Penang and Province Welleslev by Mr. CURTIS, the Assistant 

 Superintendent, Botanic Garden?, Penang. In Perak by Messrs. 

 Wrav and DERRY, the Curator of Museums, and the Superin- 

 tendent of Government Gardens respectively. In Selan^or by Mr. 

 ARDEN, the Federal Superintendent of Experimental Plantations ; 

 and, when appointed, by the Chief Forest Officer of the Colony and 

 Federated Malay States. These gentlemen will, I feel sure, (if 

 asked by the Government) be only too pleased to contribute to its 

 pages and also collect copy in their respective distrir ts and forward 

 it to the Editor in Singapore. It is by this combination only that 

 success can be achieved ; and so far as the Gardens Department 

 is concerned, no effort shall be spared to make it so. When pos- 

 sible illustrations will be reproduced. 



5. Subscriptions payable in advance will be at the rate of $3 00 

 per annum, or fifty cents for a single copy, and will be received by 

 the Superintendent of the Government Printing Office, Singapore, 

 to whom all orders should be sent. Subscriptions will commence 

 from the 1st of October next, the dare on which the first number 

 will be issued. 



W. FOX, 



botanic Gardens. 



Singapore j 1st August, 1901. 



