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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. 
Gaideners' Chronicle. restented.) 
Chemiat and Druggist. (Presented.) 
Illustration Horticole. {Presented.) 
Indian Forester. 
Acknowledgment has also to be made 
from various Colonial and Indian Botanic Gardens 
Journal of Botany. {Presented.) 
Kew Bulletin. {Presented.) 
Nature. 
Pharmaceutical Journal. {Presented.) 
Tropical Agriculturist. 
of the receipt of numerous Reports, Bulletins, &c., 
and other public departments. 
11. — Muskum and Laboratory. 
Museum.— 'Vhe 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 
the Colony in one of the rooms. Many valuable specimens have been obtained from the fine series 
sent fi'om the Northern Province and the I’rovince of TJva 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 .‘1, native foods, drugs, and other I’aw 
and manufactured products; room 4, foreign products and botanical sijecimens too bulky to 
go into the Herbarium. 
Ldhoratory. — 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 Ileputicw. 
He left on July 8. No student has availed himself of the Laboratory for the present season. 
12. — Receipts prom 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 : — 
Sales. Number of 
Rs. c. Purchasers, 
Peradeniya 
Hakgala 
Henaratgoda 
Anurddhapura 
Badulla 
■2,210 6 
,593 61 
163 72 
71 92 
50 60 
368 
100 
31 
46 
25 
Total ... 
3,089 91 
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. 0 . 
From Perlideniya (about 2,000 plants, and very large quantities of seeds) value 700 70 
From Hakgala (over 8,000 plants, 500 cuttings, and 16 packets of seeds) value 1,0.30 0 
In all Rs. 4,810-67. 
Total ... 1,7.30 76 
13.— Expenditure. 
The whole actual cost of this Department for 1891 has been -as follows; — 
Rs. c. 
8alaries and Personal Allowances 
Gardeners’ and Labourers’ wages ; 
P^rddeniya 
Hakgala 
Henaratgoda 
Anurddhapura 
Badulla 
8,330 0 
3,499 98 
•2,199 99 
1,200 0 
1,.500 0 
Rs. o. 
20,188 58 
16,729 97 
Rs. c. 
Stationery ... .. 98 37 
Postage and telegrams... ... 100 0 
Pots, tools, books, freight, Ac. ... 3,499 6 
Purchases of plants and seeds ... 443 63 
Museum ... ... 497 65 
Upkeep of racecourse ground ... 119 76 
Travelling and collecting ... 1,848 41 
Tot.il 
Rs. c. 
6,606 88 
43,525 48 
Perddeniya, February 23, 1892. 
HENRY TRIMEN, P.R.S., 
Director, 
