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From Dr. King, F.R.S., Calcutta : — Four bundles of Indian plants from the Calcutta Herbarium 
From C. Curtis, F.L.S. : — 186 species of plants from Penang. 
My principal employment during the past year has been the compilation, with the aid of the 
Library and Herbarium, of a Catalogue of the contents of the Gardens. This has long been felt as a 
pressing want both by the Garden staff and the general public, and especially by our correspondents 
in other countries ; but it is a work which cannot be done hurriedly. The list as now completed is 
brought down to the end of 1886 and contains about 3,000 species, mostly trees and shrubs. The 
Government Printer has done his share of the work with accuracy and despatch, and the little book, 
" Hortus Zeylanicus," of 130 pages was printed within the year and published in January, 1888. 
It is now on sale at the price of Re. 1, at the Garden 'gate. A Herbarium of cultivated garden 
plants, named in correspondence with the Catalogue, has also been in course of formation at the same 
time ; it has made considerable progress, and will be constantly kept up. 
Museum. — At last I am able to report the commencement of the long projected Museum of 
economic botany. The hand specimens of Ceylon timbers mentioned in my last report have been all 
cleaned, poisoned with corrosive sublimate, and labelled with printed tickets giving their botanical, 
Sinhalese, and Tamil names. Stands have been made to accommodate them, and the whole series, 335 
in number, occupies two rooms of the Museum building. There are several duplicates of the same 
wood from different parts of the Island, but a good many of our timbers are still unrepresented. 
At the close of the Colonial and India Exhibition in London, in 1886, 1 made an application 
to Dr. Watt, the officer in charge of the Indian Economic Court, for a set of any drugs, food 
products, or other vegetable substances of which duplicates might be available. In April last three 
cases of such specimens were duly received at Peradeniya, and though a good many were 
considerably damaged by sea-water, I have been able to select over a hundred specimens of grains, 
fibres, drugs, resins, &c, which will be very useful for reference. 
We have also received a valuable donation from the Museum of the Pharmaceutical Society 
in London, an institution to which it has been occasionally within my power to contribute 
specimens. This consists of 150 fine samples of the drugs in ordinary use. I have not as yet 
unpacked these — they arrived in November — as I have no proper receptacles to contain them. 
Until I am able to provide a supply of air-tight glass-stoppered jars, nothing can be done in the 
way of the exhibition of specimens of this kind. 
10. — Receipts from Sales. 
There is a substantial increase in the sales at Peradeniya during the year. 
to the large sale of seed of timber-trees for planting on tea estates, 
were 16, and of boxes of Orchids, 20. 
From Peradeniya 
Hakgala 
Henaratgoda 
Anuradhapura 
Badulla 
The 
This is mainly due 
sales of Wardian cases 
The number of purchasers was : — 
At Peradeniya 
Hakgala 
Henaratgoda 
Anuradhapura 
Badulla 
1 1 . — Expenditure. 
The expenditure on this Department for 1887 has been 
Rs. 
Salaries — 
Gardeners' and Labourers' wages : — 
Peradeniya ... 8,188 
Hakgala ... 3,000 
Henaratgoda ... 1,999 
Anuradhapura ... 999 
Badulla ... 1,499 
Total 
Total 
41 
0 
93 
99 
16 
Office Contingencies 
Stationery 
Travelling and Collecting 
Total 
Rs. 
c. 
2,740 
75 
656 
96 
156 
22 
59 
95 
181 
99 
3,795 
87 
469 
129 
40 
46 
88 
772 
Rs. 
18,447 
15,768 
3,097 
81 
1,992 
92 
46 
25 
30 
39,386 93 
Deducting receipts for sales, paid into revenue, the total cost of the Department is Rs. 35,591 -OS: 
Peradeniya, February 28, 1888. 
HENRY TRIMEN, m.b., 
Director. 
