Municipalities and other 
bodies who control public 
parks. 
It should develop into 
importance. 
The Director will need to join 
clubs in Penang and Kuala 
Lumpor, the better to keep in 
touch with public men and should 
receive a small sum added to 
]|is salary to meet such expenses 
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A possible contingency used in illu¬ 
stration of one use of the labora¬ 
tory now under erection. 
The Worts travelling fund has in the 
past taken botanical students to 
Ce ion and New Caledonia: it is 
given to men who MMM have just 
taken a degree. 
I SvAw 
remain at Singapore, for two reasons 
(I) that Singapore is unon one the 
wo-rl d* s greatest highways, and ( 
is the educational centre 0? the 
Malay Peninsula, These two reasons 
outweigh the two in favour of Kuala 
* 
Lurapor which are (1^ the proximity 
there of the Agricultural Department's 
head quarters, and (2) o^ the Purest 
services head quarters. By reason of 
having an important Garden in Kuala 
Lumpor, the Director of Gardens is 
often there, and is in complete touch 
with the Agricultural and Forest 
Departments, ‘ , 
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The Director of Gardens spends more 
time on tour than formerly, and to 
compensate "or that h^o a native 
assistant in Singapore whose work is 
especially in the Laboratory and 
Herbarium, 
At the date ( I9h5) Mr, X a Cambridge 
graduate with the aid of the Worts 
Travelling 
3Und is working in the 
Laboratory upon a study of the trans¬ 
piration of forest tree seedlings, a 
question of pure botany but of great 
practicol 
JSMMMOdMM interest if thereby we come 
to understand how it is that giant 
forest trees whose leaves stand sun 
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and wind get ovnr the difficulties of 
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early growth in deep shade. And r, 
and .American botanist, has recently 
completed a monograph on the Malayan 
^ectrias, a group of very destructive 
fungi. Mr. X and Mr. Y. in fact all 
