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office have not gone so mouldy in 1913 as they did in 1912, and the herbarium appears 
drier. Nevertheless many of the cabinets holding the collections are falling to pieces 
by reason of the rusting of the nails in them, and the situation is not satisfactory. 
Petty repairs have been done by the Public Works Department to the large plant- 
house and to the Gardens' store, Singapore. 
The Gardens’ Committee has re-attapped several sheds and small buildings, 
including the watchmen’s quarters, the plant-house annex and part of the Javanese 
coolie lines : the rubber store and store-keeper’s quarters have been altered slightly. 
I he Municipal Commissioners were permitted to lay gas-mains through the 
Gardens, Singapore; and in return they laid a water pipe to the Tamil coolie lines. 
Records and Investigations, 
The Director visited Penang on three occasions and once Malacca, Kuala Kangsar, 
Port Swettenham, Kuala Lumpur and the Ivukob district of Johore: on these occasions 
a little collecting was done. The Overseer, Penang, visited Karangan in Kedah to 
collect living plants, chiefly the palm Teysmannia altifrons of which a satisfactory 
supply was obtained. The late Mr. A. M. Burn-MurdoCH collected for the Gardens 
along the Pahang river from Temerloh to the sea. Dr. J. D. Gimlette, Mr. H. B, 
Marshall and Mr. J. C. Moulton have presented a few specimens from Kelantan, 
Brunei and Sarawak respectively. From the Royal Gardens, Kew, some Keeling 
Islands plants have been received. The Philippine Bureau of Science has given some 
specimens; and so also have Professor D. H, Campbell and the Royal Botanic 
Gardens, Calcutta. The Philippine Bureau of Agriculture has given a number of 
photographs of plants. 
Mr. Oakes Ames has supplied 75 sheets of Philippine orchids by way of an 
exchange. 
Specimens of the higher plants to the extent of 104 numbers were sent to the 
Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, and of fungi to *the extent of 195 to the Royal 
Gardens, Kew. These fungi are chiefly the larger species found in the Singapore 
Gardens, and will be named by the staff at Kew: accompanying the specimens were 
164 coloured drawings prepared by Mrs. BURKILL, which will be returned and added 
to the Singapore collections, where are duplicates of all the specimens. Some 
specimens of Myxomycetes have been sent to Miss G. LISTER, and kindly named by 
her. 
To Major A. T. Gage, Director of the Botanic Survey of India, the whole of the 
collection of Malayan Euphorbiaceae was sent for the preparation of an account of 
the order in Sir George King’s Materials fora Flora of the Malayan Peninsula.' To 
Professor Hubert Winkler the whole collection of the Sterculiaceae was sent for the 
preparation of a monograph in Professor Engler's Pllanzenreich. To Professor 
O. Beccari at Florence specimens of Pinanga and allied palms were lent and have 
been returned with his valuable identifications. 
Among the visitors to the Gardens for scientific or economic work have been : — 
Professor D. H. Campbell of the Leland Stanford Junior University, California; 
Professor K. Ono of Peking; Mr. J. F. C. ROCK of the College of Science, Honolulu; 
Drs. H. KoNIG from the University of Kiel and Doposcheg-Uhlar from the University 
of Munich; Dr. J. D. GlMLETTE of Kelantan; Messrs. Lewton-Brain from Kuala 
Lumpur and J. C. MOULTON from Sarawak; Mr. P. DROUSIE, Director of Agriculture 
in the Belgian Congo ; Drs. P. J. S. CRAMER and A. A. L. RUTGERS of the 
Department of Agriculture in the Netherlands Indies; Mr. H. M. CHlBBER, Assistant 
Professor of Botany, Poona; and Dr. HlNG Kvvai Fung of the Department of 
Agriculture, Peking. 
For the recording of the work of the department and to bring it to notice, the 
publication of a Bulletin was recommenced. It is called the “ Gardens’ Bulletin " ; and 
the five issues made in 1912 under the title of the “Agricultural Bulletin of the Straits 
Settlements ” have been absorbed into it. 
All the specimens of the timber collection have been numbered and a catalogue 
of them is being made. The numbers have been punched into the wood, so that 
nothing is likely to remove them : in the catalogue is being recorded all that can be 
read now on the delapidated labels. Unfortunately during 1913 want of staff impeded 
this necessary work. 
The books in the library have been re-arranged ; and pigeon-hole almirahs with 
expanded metal doors have been made for the unbound parts, of which there is a very 
great but unfortunately imperfect accumulation. Rats, which it is impossible to keep out 
