2 
. T ^ e Municipalities of Singapore and of Georgetown, Penang. contribute 
wards the upkeep of the Department $300 and $1 200 respectively in 
fiirther f °m ’' P ° n ro ?. dside trees - etc - 5 and the Municipality of Singapore 
further, meets the expenditure incurred by reason of music in die Gardens. ’ 
«TS^ Pe " d - tU ?V n Si,, 8'?P° re was greatly reduced: the cost of labour was 
stores ’ tools ’ trave,ling ’ books and 
the other ** miniates: 
upotf sfofesf e too'ls U and 0 mis^ehane'our$ 56 o g les^ aS l9 °° “ 1921 a “ d 
Investigations and Collections. 
Singapo^roTStiSS/^ 1 ’’tli ’’T the B ° tanic Gardens - 
temperature ?^P tember > ,c > 22 - the observations were extended to 
Olied hv n, 'r 1 u 0n and hllmld, ty, the instruments having been sup- 
for official record.™ 1 ’ R ° 0KE- and the readin g s are daily transmitted to him 
followffigire 0 here ^lfcly°thS£d?- he Department of plants or seeds - the 
Bweson 7 MM E r Mr ' -^-, Ba 4 k of Mullumbimby, Australia, Mr. E. 
r „. . Vr r ,k L ' ' Brown > Mr - G. Davidson (H. B. M.’s Consul at Panl 
Captain H Berkeley, c.b.e., Mr. W. Dunman, Mr L de Com Mr H 
S""h' , m eJ ■ W J C. tar, M* 
\Tr v’r Q V- 7 * Kinder, Mr. G. P. Owen, Mr. B. K. Sahib 
T ■ ■ _^ AV B Lieut. -Colonel R. L. B. Thompson, c m g Mrs G W A* 
bin'hIssak T Ri H 0N ' of Thursday -Island, Mr. Way.! Messrs. Ahmed 
a number of mT , , H * DJ1 ° M N< , and Abdul Kadir of Singapore and 
n T7 , -.Jala-y and Chinese exhibitors who at the close of the Mihv- 
Borneo Exhibition allowed the Department to select from their exhibits - the 
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Calcutta and Peradeniy™ the 
of LaeckenHand^Mr 31 ?^ 6 ' P ° rt p arwin ’ and Saigon; the Jardin Colonial 
.uaecken, and Mr. A. Robertson-Proschowsky of the Tardin d’ ArHima 
Central A?^ X,“ If n «“; «“ ®i F„„,« 0*«f BriS 
t &2&S#i£g* s ftjy- **% 
md ?h Wb 1^ t0 K \ entlty ° f climate between the south of the Malay Peninsula 
TW tb 1 V Amazon vad ev, an exchange has long been sou eh t with the 
earlier in connection with collecting. ' assistance rendered 
muclffp^ecGf 2 l ER T? N S gif V 0 , fa i ar S e P’ant of Dendrobium Johannis was 
mucli appreciated. It was exhibited at a meeting of the Singapore Natural 
History Society and a note upon it will be found in the Sodrtv’s trans 
7WnK S T m m ed ° W tddnngtonia Whitei which the Chief Forest Officer 
c Z a°rlV°n 53. & =■ "*? 
of v ° ike " sii 
fr ° m Buitenz org. 
