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Duplicate timber specimens distributed as follows:— 
Arnold Arboretum, U.S.A. . . .. . . 18 
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . . . . .. 17 
Imperial Forestry Institute, Oxford . . . . 17 
Forest Research Institute, Kepong .. .. 10 
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Duplicates received in Exchange from:— 
Academica Sinica, Nanking, China 
Dr. E. D. Merrill, New York 
Bureau of Science, Manila 
Forest Research Institute, Kepong 
Arnold Arboretum, U.S.A. 
Botanical Survey, Pretoria, S. Africa 
Imperial Forestry Institute, Oxford 
Prof. W. G. Craib, Aberdeen (Siamese plants) 
1,630 
The following sheets were mounted and laid during the year:— 
Local collections .. . . . . . . 1,281 
Specimens acquired in exchange . . . . 1,769 
Mr. C. X. Furtado, Assistant Botanist, worked in the Herbarium at the 
Botanic Gardens, Berlin, from June 6th 1933 to January 14th 1934, with the 
exception of a fortnight’s holiday, during which he visited botanical institutions 
in Italy, Austria and Czechoslovakia, particularly the herbarium of the Natural 
History Museum, Vienna, Webb’s Plant Museum at the University, Florence, 
and Beccari’s palm herbarium, in the possession of Professor Count Martelli 
(since deceased) at Soffiano near Florence. On January 16th Mr. Furtado 
reached London, and spent the following two months and a half working in 
the herbaria at Kew and the British Museum (Natural History). On his return 
to Singapore, he broke his journey for a short visit to the herbarium of the 
Natural History Museum at Paris. At all the herbaria above mentioned, 
Mr. Furtado studied types and other important specimens of Malayan plants 
not available in Singapore, particularly of Palms and Aroids. Grateful thanks 
are expressed to those in charge of the herbaria for facilities granted to 
Mr. Furtado, and for personal assistance given; special thanks are due to 
Professor Dr. M. Burret of Berlin, who placed his great experience in the 
study of palms at Mr. Furtado’s disposal. As a result of these studies, 
Mr. Furtado has gained much new knowledge concerning Malayan palms and 
aroids, and two papers had already been published by the end of the year, 
while others were in preparation. During the latter part of the year 
Mr. Furtado was working on the rattans, an exceedingly difficult group, the 
local species of which are still very incompletely understood. 
After his return to Singapore, Mr. Furtado continued as usual his charge 
of the herbarium of cultivated plants, and his work of indexing references to 
plants of local interest in current literature. 
Cryptogamic Herbarium. Mr. Corner continued his investigations on 
Basidiomycetes, particularly the Polyporaceae. With the aid of material 
obtained from Kew, he is undertaking the revision of the yellow-brown 
polypores. Fungus specimens were received for identification from the 
Department of Agriculture and the Rubber Research Institute. 
A new Fungarium was constructed of permanent materials in the potting 
yard for Mr. Corner to continue his studies of the development and growth-rate 
of the higher fungi. The building, which measures about 20 feet long by 6 feet 
wide and 8 feet high, consists of a brick wall, 3 feet high, on a sloping concrete 
base, and in the upper part of a metal framework (constructed by the Singapore 
Trade School) covered above and on the sides with wire gauze. Snails and 
beetles are thus excluded, and the logs of wood are kept damp by means of a 
rotating sprinkler. Such a building provides the only satisfactory means of 
studying the growth of wood-destroying fungi, and we believe that comparable 
investigations have never before been made in the tropics. 
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