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The artist worked continuously throughout the year, making drawings in 
line and in colour of plants of both botanical and horticultural interest. Mrs. 
D. Kinloch Smith also presented to the Gardens a fine series of coloured draw¬ 
ings she has made from flowers cultivated in the Gardens. 
The Herbarium. 
Steady progress was made with mounting of specimens, and 4,452 sheets 
were added to the herbarium during the year. A total of 3,095 specimens 
were despatched on an exchange basis to herbaria at Leiden, Manila, Calcutta, 
Edinburgh, Lisbon and Paris. Receipts of specimens amounted to 3,486, from 
Paris, North Borneo (Forest Department), Leiden, Brisbane, Auckland, and 
Dehra Dun (Forest Research Institute). 524 specimens were sent on loan for 
study, chiefly in connection with the Flora Malesiana scheme, to Kew, the 
British Museum (Natural History), and Zurich. 
The Hong Kong herbarium, which was sent to Penang for safe keeping in 
1940, brought to Singapore by the Japanese, and then incorporated in the 
Singapore herbarium for greater safety, was returned intact to Hong Kong in 
1948. In the meantime it had been useful for various studies in Singapore. 
The building in which it had been housed in Hong Kong was destroyed during 
the war. 
Publications. 
Vol. XI, part 4, of the Gardens’ Bulletin was published in October, 1947. 
Material for further parts is ready but printing was not possible during 1948. 
The Gardens’ Bulletin contains descriptions of new species and other detailed 
and critical matter not suitable for publication as part of a Flora; such publica¬ 
tion is an essential preliminary to the preparation of more general works. 
The Bulletin is exchanged with similar publications from other botanical 
institutions and so is valauble in building the Gardens’ library. The Director 
published a critical review of the Classification of the family Cyperaceae in 
The Botanical Review (New York). 
As regards major publications, a reprint of Corner’s Wayside Trees of 
Malaya is the most urgent necessity, as this work is very useful as a general 
introduction to the study of Malayan plants. It is hoped that reprints of 
Wayside Trees will be followed by publication of the works on orchids, ferns 
etc. which have now been prepared. 
Roads, Buildings, Etc. 
The main roads in the southern part of the Gardens were re-laid and surfaced 
by the Public Works Department, and the drains also renewed. The roads 
in the northern half remain to be dealt with. Traffic is at present restricted 
to the newly made roads, which allow plenty of space for parking of cars; this 
also leaves the other roads free for visitors to walk without interference from 
traffic. The number of visitors is now far greater than before the war, especially 
at week-ends. 
The Public Works Department also removed a great deal of silt from the 
upper part of the lake, which was deepened to three feet. The resulting damage 
to the adjacent lawns and paths was not made good by the end of the year. 
The plant houses for display of pot plants, orchids etc, have still not been 
rehabilitated. One house for propagating pot plants was re-roofed, and one 
temporary house for orchid seedlings built, but our requirements of roofed 
houses for protecting seedlings and young pot plants from torrential rains are 
still far short of our needs. 
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