TO 
HENRY NICHOLAS RIDLEY, C.M.G., F«R.S., 
who as Director, from 1888 to 1912, 
gave to the Botanic Gardens their scientific reputation ; and also to the memory of 
MAJOR-GENERAL SIR W, ORFEUR CAVENAGH, 
who, during his service as Governor of the Straits Settlements (1859 to 1867), did all that he could unofficially 
to establish the Gardens ; of 
JOHN EARN MACDONALD and EDWARD JOHN LEVESON, 
merchants, and successively Honorary Secretaries and Treasurers of the Agri-Horticultural Society of Singapore, 
which found funds for their early growth ; of 
LAWRENCE NIVEN, 
planter, who laid th^m out for the Society ; of 
JAMES HENRY MURTON, 
the first Superintendent under the Government of the Straits Settlements, for his vigorous planting in them ; and of 
NATHANIEL CANTLEY, 
Superintendent from 1880 to 1888, as having been the originator of much that is good in their internal 
organisation, 
this guide-book is dedicated by its author, I. H. BURK ILL, 
