ins Committee mot on Monday tno 10 Cxi, December 1923 at 2,30 
p,m, in ta© office of th© Conservator of Forests* those being pro- 
went being 
Mr, C,j0i.B,Oubltt* Conservator of 
Forests, 
Stir. A.S.Haynes, Secretary for 
Apiculture 
Mr, X,H,2*uxfcilX* Director of 
Cardens B.G. 
&*r, K«C,Robinson* Director of 
Museums £,&•&• 
Jr, F, f.Pexwortny* Forest Research 
Officer 
2* Tno Committee agreed that systematic botany should not bo 
cooMidered apart from botany os a mole, and that therefore tne 
centralisation of r,ystenetic botanical work involved aloe tno 
centralisation of all purely botanical research* including tno 
study of living plants. It was also abroad that there was not 
room for to botanical departments in tno Peninsula and that tne 
gradual removal of tne centre of botanical work from Bing&por© to a 
place in close contiguity with tne Forest and Agricultural Depart¬ 
ments w no dei3irable, 
3, Tho Committee recognised that financial considerations 
bring 
mi/pit prevent immediate action )&£rt& inkon and would probably 
prevent rapid development, but agreed tnnt tho scheme outlined by 
Mr, Cubitt in Ms letter no, 2 in 419/21 dated B,9,2l wan gener ally 
acceptable and should be gradually worked up to on tne following 
modified linos:- 
The Gardens at Singapore and Pen; ng would bo maintained 
as branch gardens for tne study of living plant?; 
S|fMlg4lKpE4M^I and in the second place as a. local pleasure resort 
with a tnorcuipily competent European in executive cru^rge of oacn 
while nt the same time tne garden at Kuala Lunpor would be extended 
and developed on in© linos of the Botanical Gardens at Bingapore, 
then, in the not very distant future* the time arrives to replace 
the herbarium at Singapore, which in already boooUng crowded* a 
new herbarium and txie necessary quarters and offices would bo built 
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