52. Miss Chang has been able to make some progress with her initial 
work on the higher fungi, but sections are hampered by a very restricted 
library vote precluding the purchase of appropriate literature, and by the 
lack of a suitable microscope. The artist made 64 illustrations in colour as 
a beginning to an icones fungorum. 
53. Dr. Furtado before he ceased to work on the Gardens’ establish- 
ment completed the arrangement of the palm section of the herbarium and 
distributed all the duplicate material. He carried out routine determinations of 
incoming material sent for naming and of material brought in by students and 
teachers. 
54. On a voluntary basis after ceasing to be on the establishment, 
Dr. Furtado sorted out material of Mangiferae, Guttiferae ( Calophyllum ), 
Rutaceae and parts of Fagaceae which had been accumulating over the past 
few years. He paid special attention to unnamed material from Sarawak, 
Brunei and North Borneo. 
55. Dr. E. C. Abbe. Professor of Botany of the University of Minnesota, 
and Mrs. L. Abbe of the Department of Biology, MacAlister College, St. Paul, 
Minnesota (see para. 65 of the Report for 1959) spent about two weeks in 
Singapore on return from their expedition to Malaya, Thailand, Cambodia 
and Vietnam collecting and studying Fagaceae (Oak family). A duplicate set 
of the Abbes’ collections will be deposited in the Singapore herbarium. 
56. The facilities of the herbarium were made available to Messrs. 
Cloward and Allen of the United Fruit Company of the U.S.A. to study the 
collections of Musaceae (bananas). Mr. Allen’s subsequent field collections of 
living material which have been duplicated to the Gardens have added valu- 
ably to our banana collection. Professor Harold St. John of Saigon University 
also made use of the herbarium to study Pandanaceae (pandanus). 
57. Routine mounting, repairing of damaged sheets and poisoning pro- 
ceeded but a very much reduced rate owing to the retirement of one of the 
two mounters. A replacement was found eventually. With the promotion of 
one of the two herbarium boys to the post of plant collector, it was decided to 
fill the vacancy with a third specimen mounter. Not only is there much 
material to mount but old sheets need repairing, particularly the very old 
sheets where the paper has become brittle with age. 
XVI. LOANS OF HERBARIUM MATERIAL 
58. Specimens sent on loan for study at other institutions numbered 
2,595 sheets. The majority went to Leiden for workers engaged on the pre- 
paration of the Flora Malesiana. Other major borrowers were in India, Sweden, 
Vietnam. The principal plant families concerned were: Bombacaceae, Juglan- 
daceae, Malvaceae {Hibiscus), Santalaceae, Niadaceae, Marsiliaceae, Halora- 
gaceae, Simaroubaceae, and Coniferae ( Dacrydium , Fodocarpus). 
59. Specimens received on loan for study in Singapore numbered 1,835 
sheets. The main consignments were 832 sheets of Myristicaceae for Mr. 
Sinclair and 993 sheets of Urticaceae for Dr. Chew Wee Lek. 
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