X. PUBLICATIONS 
20. Two parts of The Gardens’ Bulletin, Singapore, were issued during 
the year containing: 
Volume XXII, Part I, 20th January, 1967. 
Whitmore, T. C. : Notes on the Systematy of Solomon Islands Plants and 
some of their New Guinea relatives, I-VII. 
Markgraf, F. : ibid, VIII and IX. 
van Royen, P. : ibid, X. 
Holttum, R. E. and B, M. Allen: The tree ferns of Malaya. 
Green, S. : Notes in the distribution of Nepenthes species in Singapore. 
Holttum, R. E. : Isaac Henry Burkill, 1870-1965, an obituary. 
BurkiH, H. M. : ibid, a bibliography. 
J.P. and H.M.B.: H. B. Gilliland, 1911-1965, an appreciation. (Obituary.) 
Hsuan Keng: Observations on Ancistrocladus tectorius. 
Turner, G. J.: New records of plant diseases in Sarawak for the year 
1965. 
Volume XII, Part II, 27th December, 1967. 
Stone, B. C. : Materials for a monograph of Freycinetia (Pandanaceae), I. 
Munir Ahmad abid: A revision of Symphorema, Verbenaceae. 
Allen, B. M. : Malayan Fern Notes, V. 
Skvortzov, B. V. : Notes on the Flagellata of Hongkong. 
Hardial Singh : Sclereids in Fagraea. 
Sinclair, J. : Notes on Sapotaceae. 
Sinclair, J. : A note on Myriophyllum. 
Stone, B. C. : Studies of Malesian Pandanaceae I. 
Ashton, P. S. : Taxonomic Notes on Bornean Dipterocarpaceae, III. 
Anon: Burkill’s Dictionary of the Economic Products of the Malay 
Peninsula, Edition 2. (A note on publication.) 
21. Revenue from the sale of publications prepared by the Department 
and published by Government amounted to $9,037. 
22. Papers written by the staff and published elsewhere were: 
Burkill, H. M. : Operation Flora Malesiana, Pelita 5 (1) 15-19, 1967. (Revenue 
to government $200.) 
Alphonso, A. G. : Conservation of Orchid Species — An Important Role by 
the Botanic Gardens, Brooklyn Botanic Gardens Handbook for 1967. 
Tan Kim Ho and Bajuri Sappan: Orchid Chromosome Counting in Singapore. 
Malayan Orchid Review 8 (5) 140-2, 1967. 
XI. UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE COURT 
23. Mr. H. M. Burkill, Director, represented the Botanic Gardens on 
the University Court as Government’s nominee. Dr. Chew Wee-Lek. Botanist, 
served on the Court as the Court’s own electee. 
XII. AD HOC SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE 
24. The Director continued to serve on this Committee which was 
convened by the Deputy Prime Minister in 1966 to consider the formation of 
a Singapore Academy of Science and a Scientific Council for Singapore. 
Meetings were continued in the first part of the year and work came to 
fruition with the establishment of both bodies in July. Mr. H. M. Burkill 
was elected to the Council of the Singapore Academy of Sciences. 
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