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Buildings. 
The Public Works Department removed the larger kiosk (old monkey house) to 
a new site near the Five-ways where it serves as a shelter for visitors caught by rain 
in the northern part of the Botanic Gardens. Petty repairs were done by them to 
other structures. The Gardens' Committee repaired the rubber-smoking house and 
rebuilt the orchid propagating-house at the Assistant Curator’s quarters. In Penang 
the Public Works Department was occupied in the erection of cooly lines for a suffi- 
ciency of men. and quarters for the sub-overseer and record-keeper. 
The Gardens’ office, Singapore, was broken into on the morning of June 1 8th ; 
but nothing stolen, the safe foiling the thief. The watchman detailed for duty at the 
time, at the least neglected his rounds and was subsequently dismissed. A watchman’s 
clock is being put into use, for the better control of the night duty. 
Records and Investigations, 
In connection with pests, it is to be recorded that the measures taken against the 
moth — Brachartona catoxantha- — in Singagore island proved the right ones: having 
discovered a parasitic fungus which attacks the caterpillar, a special inspector was 
detailed to distribute that fungus to all colonies of the moth which were not already 
infected. The fungus which was new to science, has been described at Kevv as 
Botryti.% means , Massee. On request some of it was sent to Fiji for trial there 
against a sugar-cane caterpillar. 
In August, Mr. P. C. Cowley Brown was put in charge of measures against the 
locust ( P achy til us migratorioides or a closely allied species) in Malacca. It is not too 
early to state that he has done very well : but the results of his 4^ months’ work in 
1914 may be reported on most conveniently later. 
The granting of certificates of freedom from pests on plants for export, has been 
entrusted to the Gardens’ department (vide the Government Gazette of August 7th, 
1914), and preparations have been made for carrying out the duty effectively. When 
the Assistant Director has joined the department and the laboratory has been built, 
the work of studying these pests will make great strides. Insect enemies meanwhile 
found within the Gardens are being identified by the help of several entomologists. 
Mr. E. E. Green has determined some coccids, Dr. R. Hanitsch, Mr. H. C. PRATT 
and the Imperial Bureau of Applied Entomology insects of other groups. 
The damage by rats (?) to the books of the library continues : a variety of traps, 
and poison have been used against them, and the ventilators have been covered with 
fine wire netting. Binding together with the poisoning and varnishing of the covers 
protects the books, the damage being done to what is in paper covers. Unfortunately 
there are hundreds of volumes awaiting binding, an accumulation of several years 
which can be reduced but slowly. One hundred and two volumes were bound in the 
jail and 97 outside during the year. 
The cabinets in the Herbarium building have been rearranged so that they no 
longer interfere with light and air; the work-tables have been brought up to the east 
windows, and the removal of big overshadowing trees on the west side has been com- 
pleted. The improvement resulting is very great. Following it up, the record-keeper 
has numbered all the generic^ covers — those of the Phanerogams by Bentham and 
Hooker’s Genera Plantarum, those of the Cryptogams by Engler’s Pflanzenfamilien. 
These at least are now arranged in sequence ; but the ordering of the species within 
the genera is a matter of years. 
Herbarium specimens have been received as follows: — 
132 from Mr. H. N. RIDLEY, being specimens collected on the mountains of 
Selangor, by Mr. H. C. ROBINSON. 
99 from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta. 
97O from the Bureau of Science, Manila, and a few from Mr. H. B. MARSHALL 
(Brunei) and Dr. J. D, GlMLETTE (Kelantan). 
Specimens were sent out as follows : — - 
88 to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 
150 to the Bureau of Science, Manila. 
36 to the University of Cambridge. 
28 to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta. 
