Applications for facili¬ 
ties have been received 
before now # .Buitenzorg 
gives them, and has 
gained greatly thereby. 
Peradeniya hae actually 
employed young men ae 
well as giving facilit¬ 
ies. 
The Museug needs money 
for fittings, other¬ 
wise it is now in nature 
much as it will be 
This is probable 
These proposals have not 
been laid before Govt, 
yet, but have been kept 
in view for some time. 
-- 
completed a monograph on the Malayan ITectrias, 
4 4 • 
a group of very destructive fungi. Mr. X and Mr, 
' > 
Y. in fact all unofficial investigators,supply 
their own appartus: they are given a work table 
and facilities for work on the understanding 
that their work bears on our problems. 
Our problems are in botany and in horticulture: 
in points where we touch the work of the Agri¬ 
cultural and Forest Departments, the boundary 
definable thus — we are concerned in what the 
plants are, they with their relation to man. 
The Hebarium, which adjoins the Laboratory is 
devoted entiri^y to Malayan Systematic Botany ; 
and the email Museum, attached to it, exists 
for the accommodation of parte of plants which 
are too bulky for treatment as herbarium sped- 
i 
mens in the usual way. Occasional// special 
exhibits are organised in the Museum, which 
being open to the Public during working hours 
gets visited. 
A scheme ie working by which the eerviees of 
eoientific officers in retirement are used. It 
* 
began with the employment of Mr. Ridley 
(Director I888-I9I2) upon a Phanerogamic Flora 
■#- 
of the Malay Peninsula, which Flora he completed 
* 
in 1922; following the precedent the present BUM 
Director, about to retire, is to write at Kew 
a Dictionary of the Economic Products of the 
t 
Malay Peninsula. And when the coming Director 
retires he will extend the Flora of the Peninsu¬ 
la to the Dower plants, toward which he has 
already published a series of "Material* for a 
Cryptogam!c Flora" just as Sir George King and 
Mr. Ridley published a series of "Material to- 
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wards a (Phanerogamic) Flora of the Malay _ 
