a fairly big cut or small cut as age of trees demand. This sack is 
fitted to the tree on the ground, and all shavings fall on it and all can 
easily and clearly be picked up and put in the sack, which is taken 
from tree to tree. Is this a new idea or is it done elsewhere ? 
Yours faithfully, 
H. B. Mollett, 
Sungei Gadut. 
RETIREMENT OF MR. GALLAGHER. 
All will regret that Mr. W. G. Gallagher is retiring from the 
position of Director of Agriculture of the Federated Malay States. 
Mr. Gallagher succeeded Mr. J. B. Carruthers in March 1909, 
having originally been employed as Government Mycologist to the 
Federated Malay States. His lectures on the cultivation of rubber 
given in ail parts of the peninsula were well known and have been 
recently published in one of the F. M. S. Bulletins of Agriculture. 
He published also some useful pamphlets on, Root diseases in Para 
Rubber, Branch and Stem Diseases, Coffea robusta. Extermination 
of Rats in Ricefields and two in Malay on rubber cultivation. Mr. 
B. J. Eaton, the Agricultural Chemist, succeeeds him as acting 
Director of Agriculture. 
This year has seen a great change in the staff of Botanists and 
agriculturists employed officially in the Colony and Malay States. 
We have lost, besides Mr. Gallagher, Mr. Long, Mr. Main, 
Mr. Fox and we hear now Mr. Campbell is leaving and last year we 
lost Mr. Carruthers. With the immense rise and importance of 
agriculture nowadays we can ill-afford the loss of so many keen 
hard workers.— Ed. 
OBITUARY 
A. D. Machado. 
We very much regret to have to record the death of Mr. A. D. 
Machado on June 12th, from pneumonia caught in getting chilled 
while crossing the island from visiting an estate in Singapore. Mr. 
Machado had spent most of his life in the Malay peninsula, at one 
time as a police-officer, later as a miner and afterwards as a planter 
