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Hurrau of Srirarr 
Ktanila 
March 14, 1941 
Dr. R. E. Molt turn ■ 
Director of Gardens 
Botanic Gardens, Singapore 
Straits Settlements 
(Thru the Honorable, the Secretary of V* 
Agriculture & Commerce, and His Excellency, .J — * 
the President of the Philippines) 
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Dear Dr. Holttum: 
In compliance with your instructions, all the Perris 
specimens of your Herbarium are being packed today and ar¬ 
rangements being made so that -same may be shipped immedi¬ 
ately under the care of the American Express Company. The 
specimens will be insured as per your instructions and we 
will take care of the cost of such insurance. 
I regret very much that I have kept your specimens for 
a very long time; this is due to multitudinous administra¬ 
tive duties which for some time kept me from botanical work. 
I wanted to keep these specimens for a little while hoping 
that I may have more time in the future to go over them more 
critically. In this connection I wish to thank you for the 
opportunity given me in examining your- specimens. 
I u$(sh also to thank you for furnishing me data of the 
mean monthly temperatures for Singapore for the years 1931- 
1938. viiI ;Wa3S*”very anxious to get these ,data to compare same 
with our mean monthly temperatures for the same years, 
are publishing a paper on, 1! Phenological Observation of 
We 
Phil¬ 
ippine Trees", and we feel that such data will be very im¬ 
portant reference. 
Chief, Natural History 
Museum Division 
