. Saft Remo, Italy 
c/o Messrs. C-rindlay & Co 
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54, Parliament Street, 
London, S.Y. 
March -26th, 1905 
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Sir, 
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As you are aware I have, since my retirement from the 
. serx r ice of the Government of India in 1898, been occupied in 
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the preparation,for the Government of the Straits Settle¬ 
ments, of a f lora of the Malay Peninsula and. instalments of 
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this wort have from time to time appeared in the Journal of 
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the' Asiatic Society of Pengal• You are 1 also aware that, in 
connection with this wort, I have had lars e quantities of 
dried botanical specimens of Malayan plants sent for me- to ' 
study at lew as the basis of my flora. These specimens , 
after^ having been studied by me at lew, have been named and 
returned to the Botanic Garden Calcutta( by order of the 
Straits Government) for distribution to the more important 
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Potanical Museums of Europe, Asia and America. 
The wort has been conducted with your sanction and per¬ 
mission, at the Herbarium of the loyal botanic Gardens, .^ex,, 
where only indeed it was possible to do it. 
Since I began the wort in 1898 I have, from time to time 
expended on account of carriage,porterage and Storage of 
specimens and on clerical wbrh connected with the naming of 
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the latter,sums which amount to £78.13.0 sterling. In addi¬ 
tion to. this I have expended the sum of £16-14-0 . On prepar 
-ing and printing in England indices to the species descri¬ 
bed in the instalments published in the Journal of the Asia¬ 
tic Society of Bengal. The printing of these indices was 
absolutely necessary to mate the wort available,so far as 
published,to worhing botanist in the Straits Settlements and 
in the museums in other parts of the world. The cost of tries, 
indices was not met by, and # indeed it was no part of tne 
printing undertaten by the Asiatic Sqciety of Bengal,, and 
rather than it should not be done I undertook it myself. 
