Receipts and Expenditure of the Botanic Gardens Department , Singapore , 
- during the year 1904. 
Item of Estimate. 
* 
Grant ac- 
cording to 
Printed 
Estimates 
1904. 
Extended 
during 
1904. 
Total for 
1904. 
Total Ex- 
penditure 
for 1904. 
j 
Balance on 
31st 
December. 
♦ 
$ * 
$> c. 
§ c ‘ 
$ c. 
§ c. 
1. — Personal Emoluments 
Other Charges. 
2. — Expenses of carrying 
out the Provisions 
of the Coconut Tree 
Preservation Ordi- 
14,010 00 
1 
■ 
14,010 00 
12,854 3 2 
IA 5.5 68 
I 
nance 
3.— Expenses in connec- 
tion with the Publi- 
cation of the Agricul- 
210 00 
i* 
* • * 
210 00 
188 74 
. 
21 26 
tural Bulletin 
4. — Expenses of carrying 
out Experiments on 
300 00 
... 
300 00 
300 00 
# 
the Rubber Trees ... 
5.^-Grant to Botanic 
1,750 00 
■ ■ ■ 
1,750 00 
L 739 33 
10 67 
Gardens 
6. — Travelling and Per- 
I 1,000 00 
a 5,393 83 
16,393 33 
15,815 68 
578 15 
sonal Allowance ... 
7. — Up-Keep of Econo- 
500 00 
190 75 
690 75 
690 75 
31 66 
mic Garden 
8.' — Temporary Rice Al- 
lowance to Native 
2,500 00 
300 00 ! 
2,800 00 
2,768 34 
Employes 
9. — Furniture for New 
396 00 
■ • » 
396 00 
385 4 ' 
10 59 
Office 
* * * 
600 00 
600 00 
599 00 
1 00 
Total ... 
30,666 00 | 
6,484 58 
37,15° 53 ' 
35 > 34 * 57 
1,809 01 
a . — This is the balance of last year and the Revenue collected during 1904. 
H. N. RIDLEY, 
Director of Gardens , N. S, 
Botanic Gardens, Penang. 
Staff. 
No change in the Staff took place during the year and all worked well. There 
was a good deal of sickness about the middle of the year chiefly Dengue and Malarial 
fever. The ordinary Malarial fever of which we had a number of cases is said to be 
of a more virulent type in the Gardens than elsewhere in Penang. 
Visitors. 
A number of scientific men called in passing through to Buitenzorg where the 
facilities for studying the Botany of Malaya are unrivalled. Other visitors, especially 
passengers by the German Mails, continue to increase and it is now necessary to have 
a man stationed at the gates to regulate the gharries and ’rildshas and to prevent the 
coolies who linger about the gates annoying people by forcing their company on them 
as guides. There were no thefts except a very flagrant one at the Governor's Hill 
Gardens — where a lady tore down from a tree an Orchid in full flower. She was 
fined $25. 
Tlie Weather. 
2. The weather has been fairly normal, the rainfall was about the average. The 
total fall on the Hill for the year was 134*25 inches as against 123-35 inches on the 
plain. The wettest month was in August, 26-34 inches were registered on the Hill, 
and 26 33 inches on the plain respectively. March was the driest month on the Hill 
with 3-88 inches and February on the plain where 2’02 inches only wer 6 registered. 
The work generally was of a routine character such as propagating by seeds and 
cuttings the usual stock of plants kept for decoration and sale. Most of our per- 
manent collections of pot plants have been repotted, and the upkeep of blower beds 
