the Ccgsmittae mot on tonday the XOtn. December 1923 at 2.30 
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p.m. f in tne office of* tiie Conservator of forests, tne so boing pro-* 
sent being ,, , it 
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,J3.S,Cubitt # Conservator of 
Forests* 
Mr. A.S.Haynes, Secretary for 
Agriculture 
Mr. I.B.Burkill, Director of 
Gardens 8,8. 
Mr. H.C.Robinson, Director of 
Museum* F.M.8, 
Dr. F* '*/.Faxworihy, Forest Research 
Officer 
2. Tne Committee agreed tnat oysio latic botany annuli not be 
considered apart from botany as a ’mole, and that therefore tne 
centralisation of systematic botanical -orY involved also fcno 
centralisation of all purely bot*inicnl rose ran, including tnn 
study of living plants. It m s also agreed that there was not 
room for two botanical departmont3 in Lao Peninsula and tnat tne 
gradual removal of tne centre of botanical work from Singapore to a. 
place in close contiguity with trie Forest and Agriculture 1 Depart¬ 
ment s was desirable. 
3* fhe Committee recognised that financial cons!derations 
being 
might prevent 1 mediate action jtjfr{£ talc on and would probably 
prevent rapid elm jlopment, but agreed that tho scheme outlined by 
Mr. Cubitt in his letter no* 2 in 419/21 dated 8.9,21 was generally 
acceptable and nnould be gradually worked up to on tuo following 
modified lines:- 
The Gardens at Singapore and Pen; ng would bo maintained 
as branch grrdens for tne study of living plants WXt h&$$$ 
and in the second place as a local pleasure resort 
with a thoroughly competent European in executive charge of seen 
while at the same time tne garden at Kuala Lumper would be extended 
cud developed on tne linen of the Botanical Gardens at Singapore, 
/non, in the not very distant future, the time arrives to replace 
bho herbarium at Singapore* which is already becoming crowded, a 
now herbarium and the necessary quarters and offices would be built 
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| Members of 
) Committee 
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) Visitor* 
