19. Several groups of scientists in transit through Singapore paid calls 
at the Gardens office : the Royal Society team en route for Kinabalu (see also 
para, 37) in January; a group of Japanese scientists with interests in pharma- 
ceutical sciences on study tour; a number of Russian scientists taking part in 
the U.S.S.R. contribution to the U.N.E.S.C.O. Indian Ocean Research project, 
and may others in one and twos, a selection of whom are listed below. In 
the course of one’s work there builds up a volume of correspondence with 
other scientists, and this is an essential aspect, but the opportunity for per- 
sonal contact such visits give is of immensely greater value for discussion and 
interchange of ideas which formal correspondence lacks. 
Dr. Hugo Boyko 
Mr. S. J. Blake 
Dr. W. L. Stern 
Dr. Gunnar Degelius 
Dr. Ernest Abbe 
Mr. N. S. Bisset 
Mr. J. Tachibana 
Prof. P. F. Philipp 
Dr. C. A. Schroeder 
Mr. K. J. White 
Mr. D. Rhind 
Dr. T. A. Whitmore 
Dr. W. M. Meijer 
Dr. S. Krishnamurthi 
Sec. General World Academy of Art and 
Science, U.N.E.S.C.O., Consultant. 
Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane. 
Smithsonian Institution, U.S.A. 
University of Gothenburg, Sweden. 
University of Minnesota, U.S.A. 
C.N.R.S. Institute de Chemie des Substances 
naturelles, France. 
Osaka City University, Japan. 
Professor of Agricultural Economy, 
University of Hawaii, U.S.A. 
University of California, U.S.A. 
Forest Department, New Guinea. 
Adviser on Agriculture to the Minister for 
Overseas Development, London. 
Forest Department, British Solomon Islands 
Protectorate. 
Forest Department, Sabah. 
Director of Agriculture, Madras. 
20. Many research workers also visited the office and made use of the 
facilities of the library and Gardens. The herbarium reconstruction un- 
fortunately greatly restricted study of the plant collections, but with adequate 
prior notification of a visitor’s requirements, it was possible to make a limited 
quantity available. 
21. Facilities of the Gardens and library were as usual made freely 
available to members of the staff and sponsored students of the Universities 
of Singapore and Malaya and to other official organisations, local and over- 
seas. The usual very large numbers of casual visitors came daily to the 
Gardens. 
X. STATE GIFTS 
22. Three mature orchid plants were given to Lady Thelma Hochoy, 
wife of the Governor of Trinidad and Tobago; 250 orchid sprays were supplied 
for official gifts to Heads of Governments and Government representatives of 
overseas territories and in Malaysia; 800 orchid sprays were provided for 
state banquets and government functions. 
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