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in the reply to this letter. 
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OFFICE OF CONSERVATOR OF FORESTS 
F. M, S. 8c S. S. 
KUALA LUMPUR 25th, J&TLJm 
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27. 
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Dear Henderson, 
Your letter of December 31st, has 
been waiting until I had time to give it a little 
more attentition, In the meantime. Strugnell 
has very kindly looked into the herbarium and has 
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found a number of additions, I enclose a list 
with some notes. 
The area - of the Weld Hill Forest 
Reserve is nearly 42 acres,(It is somewhere between 
41 and 42 acres). I do not consider that the 
number of species reported from there is particularly 
high^f 
I have come to think that we may expect 
to find^fairly frequently^ as many as 100 species of 
trees on one acre. Our valuation surveys have 
shown that the number of trees of commercial size, 
i,e. 12 11 in diameter and over, per acre is from 
7 
18 to 21 in good forest, but there is a vastly 
larger number of trees that are below this size. 
The list I am sending you can 
probably be considerably extended from time to 
time, but I am sending it alongyin this incompleted 
state f in order to have a start. 
To, Sincerely yours, 
The Director, 
Botanic Gardens, 
S I I .Gi P 0 R E. 
Forest Research Officer, 
F.M.S 
