quirod in tne Sorest service, some preliminary skill in 
maintaining mangrove forests productive, tnat is to s ay 
in reconstructing tne climcr of the formation out ox* a 
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scre- r ’t n tc induced by working; and we hrve^ one count 
of secondary forest at fifty years of age^Tjje grand 
virgin forest of tne eninsula is yet unstudied; and 
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seeing that revenue is involved in itu nfe.inteno.nee. 
the Government s will recognise inti, 1 no study 
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of it io o State affair. It is recommended tnat in 
future the candidates for -ardons service Should nave nod 
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ecological training. 
Malaysia carrios a wonderful flora. It is thfe most 
Intense A &in-forest flora of tne Old ^trll, : ,nd ^nerefore 
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to the ^nytogeograpner * of absorbing interest. u ow it 
evolved is a muen debated and unsettled problem, interesting 
the geographer, tne geologist^ XKX tne Xoologlst and tne 
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botanist alike. In many directions of recent years 
muen nas been d one towards its }f£XiC£Xf5X .explanation, and 
tne botanist is not XK3D£X20itfX backward. Tne biology of 
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tnese forests is also absorbing t lie inter-relations of 
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plants and animals, ^tne dominance of ante in the 
plains consequences, so unlike anything possible of 
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experience in Jturopc, / tne rapid growth vm opens j 
current ideas of tne rate of 
eveolution. These and numerous like are too 
r4t -domic to be recognised as legitimate cuargcs on state 
revenues; ^but a colonial botanist equipped for Oheir study 
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will find^ employment for nis mind in all tne leisus-<s 
tnat nis wo3?k pej?mits, cl.m) c^XCf V^e/7 ' 
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