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LIBRARY 
Two more glass-fronted library cases were obtained during the 
year, one accommodating the valuable complete series of the Botanical 
Register and the Botanical Magazine, and the other the majority 
of the remaining larger books. Most of the more valuable books are now 
housed in glass cases. Opportunity was again taken to purchase several 
older works relating to Asiatic botany, hitherto not represented in the library, 
Mr. Furtado has continued the routine library work as in former years, 
including the indexing of literature relating to Malaysian plants. The 
number of periodicals now received in the library is 140. 
PUBLICATIONS 
Volume IX, Part 4, of the Gardens Bulletin was published in March; it 
contained a further instalment of Mr. C. F. Symington’s critical work on the 
Dipterocarpaceae, and a paper by Mr. R. E. Hoi.ttum on the genus 
Teratophyllum, completing his work on the Malaysian climbing ferns of this 
group. 
Volume X, Part 1, of the Gardens Bulletin, comprising 1S2 pages, was 
almost ready for issue at the end of the year. It contained two papers by 
Mr. E. J. H. Corner embodying some of the preliminary studies made in 
connection with the preparation of a book on the common trees of Malaya, 
an account of the group of climbing figs of the subgenus Synoecia, and two 
papers on nomenclature by Mr. C. X. Furtado. Mr. Furtado also 
published five short papers on nomenclature in Chronica Bolanica and 
Fedde’s Repertorium. 
Articles on local horticulture were contributed by the Director and other 
members of the staff to the M.A.H.A. Magazine , as in previous years. The 
Director also contributed an article on Bougainvilleas to the Gardeners’ 
Chronicle (London). 
PLANTS OUTWARDS AND INWARDS 
Singapore : — 
Outwards :— 
Plants sold 
Tubers, cuttings, etc. sold ... 
Seeds sold 
Plants etc. sent on exchange ... 
Plants etc. supplied free 
Seeds sent to other Botanical Institutes 
7,505 
8,004 
1,746 
3,476 
480 packets 
1 Si packets 
Inwards :—- 
Plants collected by staff 
Seeds collected by staff 
Plants received as gifts or exchange 
Seeds received as gifts or exchange 
Plants and bulbs purchased ... 
Seeds purchased 
16 packets 
1,236 
250 packets 
35 packets 
399 
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