at Kuala Lumpur, tu wnicn place tno Headquarters of all botani¬ 
cal work would too transferred.* With abandonment of tno economic 
gardens at Singapore economic work toy tno botanical department 
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4. Tno Committee considered also tno question of tno 
botanist attached to tno Museums department, and was of opinion 
that it was hopclose and useless to attempt to set up in 
Kuala Lumpur a general nerburiur* to compete witn tnat at Sing¬ 
apore. It was in favour of transferring tne P.M.B. botanist of 
tno Museums Department to tno Botanical department of tno 
Straits Settlements, tout to retain his services in tno F.M.B. 
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more he ?oulil be employed under tno tipporvision of Mr. Burkill 
tout at the coot of tno in filling gaps in the collect¬ 
ions in Singapore and pornaps in starting wo^c on tno botanical 
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gardens in Kuala lumpor. Ponding tno re-organisation of tno 
botanical department tnis would constitute a, contribution of 
tno P.M.8. towdm botanical research of whien/ie really in 
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greater need t mm the Colony. 
