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ANNUAL REPORT 
The two Journals (226 pages) published during the year cost 
•$1,153. A long paper by Dr. E. D. Merrill on the Flora of Borneo, 
which has been in the press for the last two years, should be finished 
early in 1921. It will amount to some 600 pages; the cost will 
absorb a large proportion of our balance. Owing to the still further 
rise in cost of paper and printing, the price of further Journals m 
1921 will be about 120 per cent more than the cost of the last pre-war 
Journal. So long, however, as the membership list remains above 
300 subscribing members, the Council hopes that it will be possible 
to maintain an output of 300 pages of Journal per annum, at any 
rate for a short time, without having to follow the lead of so many 
other scientific societies and recommend an increase in subscriptions. 
The Society’s Exchange List was revised during the year, 
several scientific Institutions and Societies being added 
Library to the list, while others were removed. 
The Council felt that the Society’s Library was not fulfilling 
as useful a function as it might, owing to the fact that so many 
members reside away from Singapore. The Council therefore 
considered that it would be in consonance with the original aims of 
the Society and would meet the wishes of present members if steps 
were taken to make portions of the Library more easily available to 
those who would appreciate this action. With this end in view 
the Council has offered certain botanical journals (e.g. Missouri 
Garden Bulletin, University of California Records, etc.) on inde- 
finite loan to the Director of the Botanic Gardens, Singapore; 
certain geological journals (e.g. Canadian Geological Survey, Geo- 
logical Survey of India, etc.) to the F. M. S. Geological Depart- 
ment; certain Museum journals (e.g. those published by the Smith- 
sonian Institution, Yew York Museum, Indian Museum, Colombo 
Museum, etc.) to the Director, Raffles Museum, Singapore. These 
offers have been gratefully accepted. 
It is hoped to publish an up-to-date catalogue of the Society’s 
Library at an early date. All publications on indefinite loan will 
be included, so that members of the Society may borrow them, if 
they wish, on application made through the Society’s Librarian. 
5 th January, 1921. 
J. C. Moulton, 
Hon. Secretary. 
