Annual Report of the Director of Gardens* Straits 
Settlements, for the Year 1916. 
The year 1916 was the fifth in succession of an unavoidably reduced European 
staff. In most ways its close left the Gardens in the same position as its beginning 
found them : the staff was changed only by the appointment of an additional Inspector 
of Coconut Trees for Malacca. Captain (now Major/ T. F. Chipp, the Assistant 
Director, was away throughout ; and the search for Field Assistants was unproductive. 
The demand for plants and seeds was considerable; and thereby, with the sale of 
rubber, the revenue was maintained. 
It is well to record what the short staff means, ft means that the executive 
charge of one-third part of the Gardens has to be taken over by the Director as an 
addition to his administrative charge, displacing scientific and economic research. 
It has meant since the commencement of 1912 the following distribution of the 
three executive charges: — / 
Year. 
Botanic Gardens, 
Singapore, with 
Government House 
Domain. 
- 
' 
Economic Gardens, 
Singapore, with the 
Goodwood and 
Mt. Zion Plantations. 
Waterfall Gardens, 
Penang, with 
Roadside Trees. 
• ’"vV ' , 
1912 
The Assistant Curator, 
Mr. J. W. Anderson 
i 
The Acting Director, 
Mr. R. Derry. 
; The Overseer, 
Mr. Mohamed 
Haniff 
J 9 I 3 
Do. 
The Director 
Do. 
1914 
The Director 
— 
The Acting Assistant 
Curator, Mr. J. 
Bradbery. 
Do. 
1915 
The AssistantCurator, 
Mr. J. W. Anderson 
The Director 
Do. 
I916 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
1917 
1 
t 
The Director ... 
I 
The Acting Assistant 
Director, Professor 
C. F. Baker. 
Do. 
The year 1916, as the table shows, was like the year 1913, the second of a cycle of 
three: for in 1912 and 1913, and in 1915 and 1916 the Botanic Gardens could be 
given the benefit of Mr. J* W. ANDERSON'S whole time : on the other hand in 1914 and 
again at the time of writing the Economic Garden is profiting by the whole time of 
an officer. This alternation has advantages under the circumstances. 
The Committee of Management of the Gardens, Singapore, consisted of the 
Hon’ble Mr. A. M. PoUNTNEY, the Hon’ble Mr. F. J. PiGOTT, Messrs. W. E. HOOPER, 
St.V. B. Down, W, Lowther Kemp, and E. E. Adamson, together with the 
