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number of men will be forthcoming, and if a single fully manned 
forest department for the whole peninsula is gradually created 
the ineonvenineee I hare referred to will be avoided, 
10, Reference must now be made to the sciences 
auxiliary to forestry proper, amongst which may be included 
botany, chemistry, entomology, and even engineering. In India 
the forest deaprtment has at its research institute at Behra Bun 
a staff of botanists, chemists and entoaollgiste with well 
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•quipped laboratories, and there are ene or more forest engineers 
in the serrioe of the different loeal governments, 1 doubt how¬ 
ever whether the time is yet ripe to establish such laboratories 
have purely for research conneoted with forestry. The Malay 
Peninsula is a small country and economy and convent enoe seem to 
point to the desirability of oentralising research if selsneaa 
of wide applioation in a single institute so constituted that the 
serrloes of the research officars will be freely available to all 
Later developments may necessitate partial departmentalisation, 
but not, I think, for many years, and even than departmental!* 
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nation might perhaps be within the central institute, 
11, It should^he a general p ri ciple that the feddr* 
ated Malay States and the Straps Settlements should work together j 
for, in nc other way can duplication be avoided, Prom the point 
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of view of the need for Zeonomic research the Colony is negligi¬ 
ble in comparison with the federated Malay States. The Institute 
should therefore be at Kuala Lumpor, which is oentrally situated. 
Singapore is unsuitable if only for the reason that there would be 
difficulty in finding room for the necessary buildings. I advooatj 
the immediate removal of all systematic botanical work from 
Singapore to Kuala Lumpor, together with the herbarium (for 
whioh I believe a new building ie to be erected) and the botanical 
library. The only arguments I have heard for continuing the prese¬ 
nt inconvenient arrangement are:- 
(I) that the Colony would not agree to the proposed obange; 
(II) that It is convenient for the Direetor to be near the 
Singapore botanical and economic Cardona; 
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