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M onthly Report for Lanur ry , 2604 « 
1 * I-v. Purt nd o’s report . 
Che’ NUk re -arranged 5593 specimens in + hc General Herbarium 
incoroorntiny in it also the Hong Kong pspocinens . m he plant 
families concerned are Lhbiatae, Plantagineee, Nyetaginae, Amaran- 
taceae, Chenopodiaceae , Phytoloccacoae , Polygons ceae and Cheno- 
poiiaceae. 
Che’ KXAlf :*•' ent. ^ -Jays In Penang searching f -r seeds of Indigo, 
He managed to collect; about 4 rat ties of seeds. In Syonan he mended 
Mong Kong Specimens belonging to 416 genera and placed them in 
the Genei al Herbarium. 
Mr. A. D" /Ci.PKAN, who /us engaged as a Temporary Typist- last. 
August t resigned his post on the 12th inst. i? order to go to the 
Catholic Colony of Dahau. During his tenure he typed the Index 
of the Library books and helped to do clerical Work for the office 
and rise to t j pe information for many officers concern :ng medicinal 
ana poisonous plants. 
* : r . JS . V . L, . ID , who has be e n work i ng in t h is Depart: x r t for 
the last four years in one capacity or other, also a seed to be 
released from his work from j>lQt January in order to join the 
Catholic Colony of Bahau. Mr. uuiige has distinguished himself for 
hfs zeal, carefulness and studiousness so that the Department was 
ile to collect much original information about many food crops 
>e to the investigations made by him. The vacancy created by 
.,r. Lange 1 
The vacancy 
s release Is therefore not eaoili filled. 
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Dr. P. BuidLiIf, who vas asked to look after 
in billing si lverf ieh and other vermin and i 
the book-cases arid files. He also typed the 1 
ment.s and attended to the collection of ration ca 
in th.: distribution of oil. In addition he + yped 
Supplement to the Library Index, representing new 
incorporated in the Library, but whose cards were 
in the Car'd Index. He also corrected the entries 
concerning their new places in the book- racks. 
the Library, was 
user ting naphthalene 
ist of Oil require- 
rds and assisted 
12 pegeB of the 
books which were 
not yet inserted 
on 937 books 
Dr, FURYADO assisted the K ippoi^ese officers in the general 
admin is tret i on of the Department. On behalf of -the Department, he 
took charge of the Sultana Village and t^ok its census. There are 
in the village 2.3 at tap houses, occupied by 283 persons divided 
in x o 69 families. The principal tenants are growing mostly vege- 
tables and fruit trees end rearing pigs nnd poultry. Inquiries 
show that, owing to the scarcity of feeds, the animal rearing has 
d ee r eased o om ewb x t . 
Dr, FURTADG continued his work on Rattans, determined 23 plants 
for different Kippon-zins and attended to many enquiries by 
Nippon -z ins . 
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CHAN YORK OKYl , tic Artist, made drawings of plants 
and 4 Gardens’ maps. 
Cho f ABDUL DAHAB attended to the general Office routine. The 
one- special item of importance for this rmnth was calculation of 
the incre. *unta In Coolies’ wages. 
Che f II Ax i I BOND Bln 212- supervised the plantings in Government 
House Domain and also ,/ae in charre of tending and propagating 
ornamental plants including Orchids, Ferns find pot-plants. No 
vegetables ore grown there now, but economic plants, like Bananas 
and Coconuts, ftav * been planted. 
