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As in previous years, we have added the annual volume of the following periodical publica- 
tions to our series of each : — 
Botanical Magazine. 
(Presented.) 
f Pre.'^eiited.) 
{Presented.) 
Gardeners' Chronicle. 
Chemist and Druggist 
Illustration Horticole. 
Indian Forester. 
Acknowledgment has also to be made of the 
from various Colonial and Indian Botanic Gardens and 
Journal of Botany. (Presented.) 
Kew Bulletin. (Presented.) 
Nature. 
Pharmaceutical Journal. (Presented.) 
Tropical Agriculturist. 
receipt of numerous Reports, Bulletins, &c. 
other public departments. 
11. — Museum and Laboratory. 
Museum. — The purchase of three more wall-cases, six table cases, and twenty-five dozen 
more stoppered glass jars has enabled me to exhibit a fair collection of the vegetable products of 
ilie Colony in one of the rooms. Many valuable specimens have been obtained froin the fine series 
sent from the Northern Province and the Province of Uva to the exhibition held at Colombo in 
December. When completely arranged the four rooms of the Museum will be thus occupied : 
rooms 1 and 2, native timbers and wood specimens ; room 3, native foods, drugs, and othei' raw 
and manufactured products ; room 4, foreign products and botanical specimens too bulky to 
go into the Herbarium. 
Laboratory. — Mr. J. B. Farmer, M.A., Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, spent nearly six 
months here, during most of which period he was engaged on researches on the Ceylon Hepaticce, 
He left on July 8. No student has availed himself of the Laboratory for the present season. 
12. — Receipts from Sales. 
The sales at Peradeniya were somewhat higher than usual, but the total amount remains 
pretty steady year by year. As many as sixteen Wardian cases and twenty-nine boxes of orchids 
were sold to the public during 1891 , mostly for export : — 
Peradeniya 
Hakgala 
Henaratgoda 
Anuradhapura 
Badnlla 
Total 
Sales. 
Rs. c. 
2,210 6 
593 61 
163 72 
71 92 
50 60 
3,089 91 
Number of 
Purchasers. 
368 
100 
31 
46 
25 
570 
In estimating the actual distribution of seeds and plants from the Gardens, there should be 
added to this the value of those supplied gratis to the Government officers, &c., enumerated on 
page 8. These have been for the year 1891 : — 
Rs. c. 
From Peradeniya (about 2,000 plants, and very large quantities of seeds) value 700 76 
From Hakgala (over 8,000 plants, 500 cuttings, and 16 packets of seeds) value 1,030 0 
In all Rs. 4,810-67. 
Total 
1,730 76 
13. — Expenditure. 
The whole actual cost of this Department for 1891 has been as follows : — 
Rs. c. 
Salaries and Personal Allowances — 
Gardeners' and Labourers' wages : — 
Pc^r/ideniya ... ... 8,330 0 
Hakgala ... ... 3,499 98 
Henaratgoda ... 2,199 99 
Anuradhapura ... ... 1,200 0 
Badulla .. ... 1.500 0 
Rs. c. 
20,188 58 
16,729 97 
Stationery 
Postage and telegrams... 
Pots, tools, books, freight, &c. 
Purchases of plants and seeds 
Museum 
Upkeep of racecourse ground 
Travelliiig and collecting 
Rs. c. 
98 37 
, 100 0 
3,499 6 
443 63 
, 497 65 
, 119 76 
1,848 41 
Rs. 
Total 
6,606 88 
43,525 43 
Pferddoniya, February 23, 1892. 
HENRY TRIMEN, f.r.s.. 
Director. 
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