BOTANICAL RESEARCH 
XV. COLLECTING AND NEW RECORDS 
42. With an increase in the vote for plant collecting, it was possible 
to increase the number and range of expeditions. Not counting the many 
single day forays into the Singapore Nature Reserves and countryside and 
into Southern Johore, the following expeditions were made:— 
J. W. Purseglove and 
Bako National Park, Sarawak 
2-18/2 
Md. Shah bin Haji 
Md. Nur 
H. M. Burkill 
Pulau Satumu (Raffles Light), 
Singapore 
30/1-3/2 
H. M. Burkill 
Pulau Senang, Singapore 
2-6/8 
H. M. Burkill 
Malacca 
19-20/4 
H. M. Burkill 
Fraser’s Hill, Pahang 
30/4-4/5 
H. M. Burkill 
Kanburi, Thailand 
25-27/11 
J. Sinclair and Kadim 
bin Tassim 
Mt. Kinabalu, Ranau and 
Sepilok Forest, Sandakan, 
North Borneo 
1/6-6/7 
J. Sinclair 
Malacca 
20-21/4 
J. Sinclair 
Mersing, Johore 
4-5/12 
Chew Wee Lek and Kiah 
Trengganu, Kelantan 
27/3-11/4 
bin Haji Salleh 
Chew Wee Lek 
Pulau Langkawi and Perlis 
10-25/5 
Md. Shah bin Haji Md. 
Nur 
Fish Culture Research Sta¬ 
tion, Malacca 
5-10/5 
Md. Shah bin Haji Md. 
Nilai, Negri Sembilan 
17-24/9 
Nur 
136 nos. 
17 nos. 
10 nos. 
20 nos. 
56 nos. 
64 nos. 
416 nos. 
14 nos. 
6 nos. 
32 nos. 
14 nos. 
60 nos. 
82 nos. 
This opportunity is taken to acknowledge the help given Departmental 
officers on these collecting trips. Thanks are due to Dr. E. F. W. Brunig, 
Forest Department. Sarawak, and Mr. T. Harrisson, Sarawak Museum, Mr. 
G. Seidenfaden, Danish Ambassador to Thailand, Nai Tern Smitinand of the 
Royal Thai Forest Department, Mr. G. L. Carson, Mr, D. J. Nicholson and 
Mr. F. V. Webster of the North Borneo Forest Department, Mr. K. H. Bryant, 
State Forest Officer, Kelantan and Trengganu, Mr. J. Wyatt-Smith, State 
Forest Officer, Kedah and Perl is. Dr. G. Prowse of the Fish Culture Research 
Station, Malacca, and Mr. D. R. Maw, Manager, Jindaram Estate, Nilai. 
43. A considerable amount of valuable and interesting material was 
collected during these trips. Mr. Purseglove accompanied by Professor Gilli¬ 
land, Professor of Botany, University of Malaya, completed a preliminary 
botanical survey of the new National Park situated at the mouth of the 
Kuching River. Mr. Burkill continued his observations on algae at Raffles 
Light and neighbouring islands, collected algae at Malacca and, since he was 
on casual leave and travelling without collecting equipment, his numbers at 
Fraser’s Hill were mostly Bryophytes which presented no technical complica¬ 
tions of preservation. The collecting trip in Thailand was made during an 
interlude in the Ninth Pacific Science Congress in Bangkok in a locality 30-50 
kilometers north of Kanburi (Kanchanaburi) in the foot hills of the Menam- 
Meklong watershed. Mr. Sinclair’s visit to North Borneo was primarily to 
study Myristicaceae but a very rewarding general collection was made. An 
account of this trip will appear elsewhere. His collecting at Malacca and 
Mersing was done on casual leave. Mr. Chew Wee Lek collected Moraceae 
too 
