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resins and other vegetable products, which is now in the Botanic 
Gardens Museum. He left in 1875. 
In 1875, Mr. A. J. MURTON was appointed Superintendent of the 
Botanic Gardens, and shortly afterwards Mr, Walter Fox, his 
Assistant. Mr. MURTON remained in charge till 1 879. He intro- 
duced a large number of useful, as well as ornamental, plants into 
cultivation, including Para Rubber, Castilloa, Cera Rubber, Liberian 
Coffee, Ipecacuanha, and very many other plants. He also studied 
the local flora, especially giving his attention to Gutta-Percha and 
the wild rubber vines Willoughbeia, and made botanical excursions 
into Perak and Kedah, during one of which he planted the first 
Para Rubber trees in Perak in Sir (then Mr,) Low's garden at 
Kuala Kangsa and at Teluk Anson. 
In 1880, Mr. MURTON was succeeded by Mr. N. Cantley, who 
continued the excellent work begun by Mr. MURTON, and in 1884 
managed to add to the Gardens a large piece of land known as the 
Military Reserve, which was forthwith converted into the Economic 
Gardens. This land, covered to a large extent with scrub, and some 
Chinese vegetable and Indigo gardens, was a valuable acquisition 
as the original Botanic Gardens were far too small for the propa- 
gation of the useful plants required for the Colony and the Native 
States which were now beginning to develop. 
Although the funds available for opening up this part of the gar- 
den were not large, good progress was made. ' Numbers of new and 
useful plants were introduced and those previously introduced were 
extensively propagated and dispersed to various parts of the Peninsula 
and elsewhere. Mr. CANTLEY published also a list and account of 
the Economic plants under cultivation in the Gardens, a good deal 
of his time also was taken up in framing the Forest Department 
and experimental planting of timber trees. Mr. CANTLEY died in 
Tasmania in 1887 and was succeeded in 1888 by the present Direc- 
tor (H. N. Ridley). 
During Mr. CANTLEYS’ superintendence, the present Botanic Gar- 
dens of Penang were founded and put under the charge of Mr. C. 
CURTIS in 1884. These Gardens were not only ornamental but 
supplied a considerable number of useful plants to planters in other 
paris of Penang, and Mr. CURTIS made also many important con- 
tributions to our knowledge of the cultivation of Rubber, Gutta- 
percha, Sugar, and other useful plants. He retired in 1903. 
The small gardens'of Malacca at Bukit Sebukor were founded in 
1886, on ground presented by a Chinaman, on condition that it 
should be converted into a garden, and should revert to him if the 
garden was given up, which happened in 1894, when the Govern- 
ment abolished the Garden. The Malacca Garden was under the 
superintendence of Mr. Robert Derry. The use of this Garden 
was simply to supply local requirements in shade and fruit trees and 
other useful plants necessary for the inhabitants of Malacca, which 
work it did very well, but besides this experiments were carried out 
by the Superintendent on Castor Oil, fibre plants, Mauritius hemp, 
