FLORA & FAUNA
Chapter 2.
An account of the flora and fauna of Hong Kong was published in the Annual Report of the Colony for 1947 and there is little that can be added this year.
The Herbarium which was fortunately saved from destruction by the timely sending of it to Malaya in 1940 was recalled from Singapore during the course of the year. That this valuable collec- tion came through unscathed is in no small part due to the efforts of the Director and staff of the Botanic Gardens, Singapore. The work of reassembly of over 40,000 specimens was completed and made available for reference at the close of the year. Much still requires to be done to overhaul the collection, and some time must elapse before the greater part in need of remounting is accom- plished.
The library has had to be built up again from the beginning, and as a result of purchase and a generous response to appeals made to Institutions abroad for technical publications, it now assumes the working proportions of a reasonable reference collection.
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