Dr. R. E. Holttum 
Director of Gardens 
Botanic Gardens, Singapore 
Straits Settlements 
Karen 14, 1941 
(Thru the Honorable, the Secretary of 
Agriculture & Commerce, and His Excellency, 
the President of the Philippines) 
Dear Dr, Holtturn: 
In compliance with your instructions, all the 
specimens of your Herbarium are being packed today and ar¬ 
rangements being made so that same my 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 adalnistra- 
tive duties which for some time kept mo from botanical work, 
I wanted to keep these specimens for a little while hoping 
that I my 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 wish also to thank you for furnishing me data of the 
mean monthly temperatures for Singapore for the years 1931- 
1938, I was very anxious to get these data to compare same 
with our meaiiP&onthly temperatures for the same years. We 
are publishing a paper on, "Phonological Observation of Phil 
Ippine Trees", and we feel that such data will be very im¬ 
portant reference. 
Sincerely 
Chief, Natural History 
Museum Division 
EDUARDO qUISUMBIEG 
