INTRODUCTION. 
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Leonard Wray, I.S.O., was appointed Superintendent of the 
Government Hill Garden in 1881, and Curator of the State Museum, 
Thaiping, 1883. He collected plants in the Thaiping Hills and 
made expeditions to the Batang Padang district, to Gunong Tahan 
with H. C. Robinson, and to other localities. His collections were 
distributed from Calcutta. He retired in 1908. 
Henry James Murton arrived in Singapore in 1875 and re¬ 
mained in charge of the Gardens till 1880. He collected a number 
of plants, visiting Kedah, Gunong Pulai in Johor, and Gunong Bubu 
in Perak. A few specimens remain in the Kew Herbarium, but 
the greater number and his manuscript flora of Singapore have 
disappeared. He died in Bangkok in 1881. 
Nathaniel Cantley succeeded Henry J. Murton in charge of 
the Gardens in 1880 and started the Herbarium there. He em¬ 
ployed native collectors in Singapore, Malacca, and Negri Sembilan, 
and also collected in Singapore and other parts. His herbarium is 
still at Singapore Botanic Gardens. Many of the specimens were 
unfortunately unlocalised, but the collection was a very valuable 
one. He died in Tasmania in 1888. The genus Cantleya is named 
after him. 
Richmond William Hullett, born 1843, headmaster of the 
Raffles School, was a good amateur collector at about this period, 
1880. He collected in Singapore, Mt. Ophir, and Johor, and also 
in Java and Borneo, and made important additions to our knowledge 
of the flora. The genus Hullettia was named after him. He ceased 
collecting plants about 1888 and made over his herbarium to the 
Botanic Gardens, Singapore. He died in England in 1914. 
After the death of Cantley, the author took charge of the Botanic 
Gardens in Singapore in 1888 and commenced collecting plants on 
as large a scale as possible. Having charge of the Colonial forests 
from 1888 to 1902 ,1 had large opportunities of collecting in Singapore, 
Malacca, the Dindings, and Penang during the forest work, and also 
made expeditions to Johor, Negri Sembilan, Selangor, Perak, 
Province Wellesley, Kedah, and as far north as Setul, on the west 
coast, and to Pahang and Kelantan on the east coast. I retired in 
1912, but later spent several winters in the Malay Peninsula con¬ 
tinuing my researches. During my residence in Singapore I was 
materially assisted by a number of persons interested in botany, as 
well as officials on the staff of the Gardens and Forest Departments. 
Charles Curtis was in charge of the Penang Botanic Gardens 
from 1884 to 1903 when he retired. He collected the flora of 
Penang and published a list of the plants of Penang in the Journal 
of the Straits Branch of the Asiatic Society, vol. xxv, p. 67. He also 
made large collections in the Lankawi islands and Terutau and the 
Trang district, and also collected on the Hermitage Hill and Sungkai 
River in Perak. Many species of plants are named after him, as 
well as the genus Curtisina. 
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