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Applications for facilities 
have b|en received before 
now. Bttitenzorg gives them, 
and has 105MK$HM3& gained 
thereby. Peradeniya has 
actually employed young men 
as well as giving facili¬ 
ties 
■unofficial investigators, supply their own 
appartus: they are given a work table and 
facilities for work on the MmmmXJmt 
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understanding and their work bears on our 
problems. 
Cur problem are in botany and in horticul¬ 
ture: in points where we touch the work of 
the Agri cultural and. Forests Departments, the 
boundary is definable thus,- we are concerned 
in what the plants are, they with their 
r elation io man* 
Museum needs 
The money for fittings, The Herbarium which adjoins the 
otherwise it is now in 
nature much as it will be Laboratory is devoted entirely to Malayan 
Systematic Botany, §,n& the smell Museum, 
attached to it, exists for the accommodation 
of parts of nlants which are too bulky fo~ 
treatment as herbarium specimens in the 
usual way. Occasional exhibits are organised 
in the Museum, which being open to the Public 
during working hours gets visited. 
A scheme is working by which the services 
of scientific officers in retirement are used 
It began with the employment of Mr. Ridley 
(Director I888-I9I2; uj^on a Phanerogamic 
This is possible Flora of the Malay Peninsula, which Flora he 
completed in 1922 : following the precedent 
the present Director, about to retire, is to 
This proposals have not MMMMwrite at Kew a Dictionary o~ the Economic 
been laid before Govt, yet 
but have been kent in Products of the Malay Peninsu&lt. And when the 
view for some time, 
coming Director retires he will extend the 
Flora of the Malay Peninsula to the Lower 
plants, toward which he has already published 
a series of "Materials for a Cryptogamic 
Flora" just as Sir HMMtt George King and Mr. 
Ridlpy published a series of«Material towards 
