be added without going outside the scope of the 
Institute. There is nothing in the collection 
relating to the shipping and coaling facilities 
afforded by the ports of the polony; no mention of 
the docks at Tanjong Pagar or of the smelting works 
at Pulau Brani. These would seem to be fit subjects 
for photographs. 
10. In.regard to the existing exhibits some 
additions might be made which would amplify the 
collection and bring it up to date. The date of the 
collection, to judge from the Catalogue, is 1893. 
The tin ware alluded to in Paragraph 7 is, I believe, 
of later date. There are no samples of tea from 
Malacca nor any exhibit of coffee from Selangor. Of 
the sugar estates in Province Wellesley Prye is the 
only one represented and there are two specimens from 
Gula.Estate, Perak. This part of the collection is 
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quite unworthy of the industry. The exhibit of 
"getah" seems fair but doubtless, in view of the 
greater attention paid to this subject lately, it 
will be possible to add to the samples. yearly all 
the samples of tin ore and mineralogical specimens 
come from perak, but the collection contains no 
specimens of Perak marble. In his report on the 
Colony’s exhibit at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 
part of which, I believe, formed the nucleus of the 
present collection, Sir F. Swettenham regretted 
the absence of specimens of the rattan furniture 
(tables,chairs, &c.) made in Singapore; the same 
remark 
