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subjects were treated of. The article on Malayan drugs, printed 
many years ago in the “Straits Medical Journal” by the Director, 
and long unprocurable, was reprinted and very much augmented. 
Investigations were also made into the action of copper sulphate 
on water weeds, and especially on the laterite-forming Bacterium 
Crenothrix, and an account published in the Bulletin. 
The Artist continued making drawings of important plants, 
and towards the end of the year, in the rainy season, made a large 
series of drawing of the soft Fungi, of which little or nothing is at 
present known, and which are almost impossible to preserve even 
in alcohol in this country, so that coloured drawings are the only 
way of recording and identifying them satisfactorily. Of a few 
drawings sent previously to Kew of these plants all proved to be 
unknown previously to science. A few more supplementary lecture 
diagrams were also made by the Artist. The lectures to the 
Medical Students were delivered by the Director from September to 
December twice a week, as on the previous occasion. 
Agri-HoPticultural Show. 
13. — The Annual Exhibition was held this year at Singapore, 
and was probably the largest Exhibition of the kind ever held in 
the East. The exhibits from all parts of the Peninsula were 
remarkably good on the whole, and the Exhibition was attended 
by very large crowds of visitors and some delegates from Java, 
India, Ceylon, Burmah and other places. The secretarial work of 
the Exhibition, which was very heavy, was effected by the Director 
and Mr. J. S. Isaac, Clerk of the Botanic Gardens Department. 
Economic Garden. 
14. — This part of the Gardens has steadily increased in 
usefulness and importance, n^ot only to the local community, but to 
* all the tropical parts of the Empire, and indeedit would be difficult 
to over-estimate its utility. All tropical plants are experimented 
with and stocks of all for which there is or is likely to be an excep- 
tional demand are maintained in considerable quantities. It may 
give some idea of the work carried out if it is mentioned that during 
the year plants or seeds have been despatched on sale to countries 
as remote as the West Indies, including Cuba, Samoa, Honolulu, 
Queensland, New South Wales, West Australia, Fiji Islands, 
Philippines, New Guinea, China, Hongkong, Borneo, Sumatra, 
Java, India, Ceylon, Egypt, Lagos, Nigeria, and Madeira, while 
the local demand from the Colony and Federated Malay States has 
increased enormously. 
Apart from the ordinary interchange between gardens, so 
greatly has the work increased that the addition of five men has 
been sanctioned for the new year. At the present time the labour 
employed is quite inadequate for the due maintenance of the 
garden, nor is it possible, even at a time when agriculture is deve- 
loping in the Peninsula at such a rate, to carry out experiments 
which are urgently required. A request for an additional assistant 
