o 
Tnero are 4o fart nor squares mmmST. carrying figures of 
V per cent end Toss* 
Xt» is not intended to suggest tnr-.t work snould fortnwitn 
*bo directed to consisting, the knowledge of eacn square; 
kut to- indicate diagr annoticat 1 y wrierc knowledge is scanty. 
Tnose seme figures snow that . tno fascination of tno 
mountains nas led to tneir getting attention next after 
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Ik. IMM. I* *«*«■*• of U.W..U.M* 
Ssor fcocnini, of Sir a oorgo King 1 s collector K-unstlcr* and 
of 'fray, an officer of tno x erak Museum, our knowledge of 
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tnc aiping nills’ is not meagre. An early papor will 
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review it. Another early papier will draw into one view 
wnat is known of tno vegetation of tnc uppermost two- 
tnousand foot of tuning Tnne.n, the hi guest of tno mountains 
of tno Peninsula: hut unfortaunatoly tno collections 
brougnt thence somewhat *{ tno nature of selections. 
By knowledge such as tne above map represents, officir-2 
field collecting ls A directed. 
Tne material collected passes .into tno Singapore 
Herbarium, and muon again passes out by way of oxenange witn 
institutions able and willing to supply what tne Singapore 
herbarium needs, i.o. comparable material from adjoining countries 
material nelping in the maintenance of a common nomencla¬ 
ture of species, Tne annual despaten is now of 
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about 3000 spocimous . 
Tne Singapore ^otbarium is part and parcel of tne 
Botanic hardens of tno Settlement, not by accident, but 
by the. nature of tno work in bo in. 
Bownic hardens of tno% Brit ism colonialS^ypo are 
several si^ed, but mainly educAftonal. An educational XXJ5XXX 
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institution Tnecds to be in a o^totre of population, and 
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also popular: \nd to touen tnc interest an cVonomic 
r unning 1’^ 
element is appropriate XX33DP3CXX lesson in plariVs 
that tney ore intended to 
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