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There remained, at this time on the "'hixed deposit 
Against Malayan ^lora u made in X888 over $12,000 out of this 
$6,333-6* an approximate estimate for Dr.King’s Materials w 
was paid to the Asiatic Society of Bengal {see Minute292/02) 
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The same year the question of the publication of 
the materials in Book ^orra was gone into (Minute S0’ S ’3/0I) 
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and an estimate of cost was received (»Tune 24th* 1902) in 
Minute 6*14/02)* This was based on the cost of ^.publica¬ 
tion of Dr.Trimen's Flora of Ceylon, a smaller w ork„This was 
estimated at£T430,when this was agreed to there was still 
some money of the original fixed deposit left and it was 
a gr» eer i that it was advisable to utilize this in paying the 
salary of the Artist (hitherto he was pai d from a separate 
voted voted yearly) to make drawings of plants for the Flora 
and in 1905 the out-of-pocket expenses of Or.King viz£**-I3 
9 d* was paid out of the fixed deposit also* 
in 1902 (Misc. XX95/02) it was agreed that the 
Director of Gardens -Singapore should -Trite the volumes of t 
the Materials dealing with the Monocotyledons. Theso were 
written and it was determined to have the Mss type-wri then 
at Government expense*The cost of this to come out of the 
fixed deposit. 
To get this part published as soon as might be it was 
agreed to have it printed in Singapore find estimates of its 
cost were obtained from several 
The Government decided to accept that of the Mission 
Press,which was $2-6-3 a page exclusive of the cost of bind- 
ing.The number of estimated pages was *60(Letter April 26 in 
Minute 1606/06)This is approximately $2,000 or a little over 
All that remains in the future is to bring out the 
Flora in Book Form,with the illustrations as was done in 
Ceylon.This will take a further sum of £1300 and the hono¬ 
rarium of Sir George King of £300 as agreed.This cannot be 
required for X should say another five years and of course 
would partly at least be recovered from sales. 
