Annual Report of the Botanic Gardens, Singapore and 
Penang, for the Year 1912. 
The body of this report relates to the Gardens in Singapore, the Waterfall Garden, 
Penang, being the subject of an Appendix. 
Staff. 
The Gardens Committee, Singapore, was strengthened in October by the addition 
of two members, Messrs. F. M. Elliot and H. W. FiRMSTONE. 
The Committee therefore consists of : — 
Chairman, the Director : 
Members . 
His Excellency Major-General 
T. E. Stephenson, c.b., 
The Hon’ble J. 0 . Anthonisz, 
Mr. H. W. Firmstone, 
Mr. W. E. Hooper, 
Mr. St. V. B. Down, 
Mr. F. M. Elliot. 
The late Director, Mr. H. N, Ridley, went on leave on January 1 8th, and was 
retired on March ist. Mr. Derry, the Curator, Singapore, took over charge of the 
Gardens on January 1 8th from Mr. Ridley, and except for two periods remained in 
charge until October 17th, when Mr. I. H. Burkill became Director of Gardens. 
As overseer of the rubber tappers a man named Edwards was first appointed 
but he soon fell ill, and the present overseer NALLAMUTHU succeeded him. 
The Public and the Gardens. 
The public have freely enjoyed access to all parts of the Botanic and Economic 
Gardens through the year. Under the sanctioned and gazetted by-laws, the Gardens 
are regarded as closed after sunset (except on band nights when they are closed at 
11 P.M.) ; but nightly two or three or more conveyances enter the Gardens even up to 
2 A.M., and visitors sometimes walk in them. The public must recognize that they do 
this at their own risk ; and that the management is not expected to light obstacles, 
etc., in the roads. 
The band of the Buffs played in the Gardens on several occasions on full moon 
nights; and their Drums-and-fifes played on Wednesday evenings regularly in the 
children’s hour. 
Among the visitors were : — Their Highnesses Prince William and Princess Marie 
of Sweden ; Major G. P. Ahern, Director of Forestry in the Philippine Islands; 
Professor PAUL J. Bruhl of the Civil Engineering College, Calcutta; Messrs. H. J. 
ELWES, F.R. S., President of the Royal English Arboricultural Society, and Leon 
HAUTEFEUILLE of the Agricultural service of French Indo-China ; Drs. JACQUES 
Huber of the Botanic Gardens of Para, Brazil, and A. NathansON of Leipzig ; 
Mr. J. PARKES, late of the Indian Cinchona Department; Mr. HENRY Tryon, 
Government Entomologist of Queensland and Dr. J. Harvey JOHNSTON, forming the 
Queensland Prickly Pear Travelling Commission ; Dr. F. C. VERMOESSEN, of the 
Belgian Agricultural Service; M. Philippe DE Vilmorin, Vice-President of the 
Societe Nationale d’Horticulture de France, and well known for his horticultural work. 
