THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
[July i, 1881. 
The Draftsman has added 22 finished drawings to the fine series of coloured illustra- 
tions of the plants of Ceylon, having accompanied me on a visit to the Nuwara Eliya District. 
A portion of his time has been occupied in making duplicate drawings of Ceylon Lepidop- 
tera for the serial work now being issued in London on that group of insects. He has also 
the general care of the herbarium. 
A good number of our mountain and sea-shore species still remain to be figured, as 
well as many common ones, and nearly the whole of the grasses and Cyperaceae, but the 
series, which is entirely the work of one family (father and two sons) of' artists, is now 
a very full one, and probably unequalled in the East for accuracy of botanical detail com- 
bined with beauty of delineation. It is to be regretted that no selection from them has 
ever been published, though suggested thirty-five years ago by Dr. Gardner. Such a 
selection could still be made — though many of our plants have since been figured in the 
works on Indian Botany of Beddome and others — and, with suitable text, would form a 
valuable and handsome contribution to science, worthy of the traditions of this establish- 
ment and spreading a knowledge of the interesting and peculiar vegetation of Ceylon. 
Library. — All the books included in the printed " Return of Botanical Books" and in 
the MS. additions thereto, I find to be in the library ; of a few there are duplicate copies, 
most of which (including some on Cinchona) I have sent to the Hakgala Garden. 
In addition, I found on my arrival a large quantity of books and pamphlets not entered 
in the " Return." Of these I have made a list. 
Dr. Thwaites, with great liberality, permitted me to go over the valuable books he 
had left behind him at Peradeniya, and to select what I pleased for the library. This I 
very gratefully did, and thus have been added some important works. Others which we 
already possessed, or which were not botanical, I sent, with Dr. Thwaites's permission and 
in his name, to the library of the Colombo Museum. 
Having since gone over and re-arranged the whole of these books, I am now engaged 
on a proper systematic catalogue to replace the quite incorrect " return" abovementioned. 
With this I have made considerable progress, and its compilation has revealed rather 
numerous imperfect books. Such gaps I am endeavouring to supply, and my thanks 
are due in several quarters for help in so doing. Colonel Beddome has kindly sent the 
parts necessary to complete our copies of his indispensable works on Southern Indian 
Botany, the Colonial Office has supplied the three concluding volumes of Bentham's 
" Flora Australiensis," and Kew has sent Baker's " Flora of Mauritius" and several 
smaller works. Other benefactors, besides Dr. Thwaites, have been Mr. C. B. Clarke, 
now of Kew, Sir Ferd. von Mueller of Melbourne, Mr. G. Wall of Colombo, and 
others. I must also specially mention the Council of the Linnean Society of London, who 
in the most liberal manner have offered me the 23rd to 30th volumes of the valuable 
" Transactions" (needed to complete our set) at one-half of the reduced price allowed to 
Fellows. This is the second occasion on which the Peradeniya Library is indebted to 
this celebrated Society. 
Many books being out of repair or altogether unbound, 38 volumes have been bound 
during the year in an inexpensive manner in Kandy. 
VIII. — Expenditure. 
The whole expenditure on this establishment during the year has been as follows : — 
Rs. Cts. 
Salaries 
1 3,544 70 
Gardeners' and Labourers' Wages — 
Peradeniya (Revenue Service) 
Henaratgoda ( do. ) 
Hakpala ( do. ) 
Pavilion (Miscellaneous Service) 
6,667 01 
1,999 83 
2,995 91 
2,195 23 
1,948 81 
1,462 76 
1 
Office Contingencies 
Travelling (Transport) 
Total ... Rs. 30,814 25 
Peradeniya, 
lnt January. 1881. 
HENRY TRIMEN, M.B., 
Director. 
