Extract from a despatch from the Officer Administering 
the Government of the Straits Settlements to Mr* 
Chamberlain* 
Dated 27th June, 1901* No*299- 
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I have the honour to inform you that, in 
consequence of representations being made as to the 
unsatisfactory state of the Exhibits from the Colony, 
and Federated Malay States at the Imperial Institute, 
Mr E.G-Broadrick of the Straits Civil Service who was 
proceeding to England on leave was requested to visit 
the Institute and advise on the best way of improving 
and enlarging the Collection- 
2. I attach a copy of Mr Broadrick's Report 
from which it appears that the Collection is by no 
means a representative or adequate one and that the 
Exhibits are badly arranged and catalogued. 
3* The Executive Council of the Institute 
wishes the Colonies to fellow the example of India 
which has a special standing Committee in England to 
which is added temporarily a Government official who 
is on leave in England and is able to render assist¬ 
ance . 
This Committee is charged with the maintenance 
and renewal of a thoroughly representative collection 
of the chief natural products and principal manufactures 
of the country. 
4. It appears to me that unless a number of 
former residents of the Colony and Federated Malay 
States can be induced to form themselves into a stand¬ 
ing Committee and take an interest in the collection 
little 
