Botanic Gardens, Penang 
October 5,1925 
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Dear Mr. Holttum, 
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Kony, thanks for sending Be the two parts of GOB¬ 
BED 8 ORGANOGRAPHY. 
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Ve are haring here anunsually vet weather which began with 
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a very severe steam on last Sunday evening, fortunately it did very 
lit tie, damage in the Gaddcns, though the Water-Reservoir up in the 
hardens wee Tory badly damaged eo as necessitate its immediate em- 
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ptying and repAtring. On Monday last when the storm had almost sub- 
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sided Y the , T blaek monkeys FRSSBYTSS CB8CUHTJS braved to come openly 
in the Gardens and parasitise on the Alblssla moluccana in lawn B* 
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I watched then for sometime and noticed tin 
leaves- and sating the basts s t their etalke which are tender and 
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fleshy* X didn’t observe them sating branch-tips as recorded by 
Sr. Burkill in hie last yaaris repprt. 
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twige and found their tipe intact. Probably later on when the leave 
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are eearee they eat branoh.tipe to eatlofy their hunger. 
I have posted S wxy a wxA ns yeeterdey two paresis of specimens for 
mounting* I suggoit tho specimens be thoroughly poisoned mors than 
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once as ws have nobody here who understands that sort of work pro- 
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Eleasoi send seme cover-sheets for our Herbarium specimens here. 
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ae without thsm the mounted t epeeimeas are liable to,damaged soon, 
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ere are roesrded in Ridley's Viera suuqy plants from Penang 
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we have not MPenang Herbarium,Are there no duplicates of 
bss in Singapors which could be spared for us,I wonder? 
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Yeure sincerely 
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