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[[circled]] 12 [[/circled]] A severe rain & thunder shower visited Singapore at noon & lasted an hour & a half. In the afternoon I visited the Botanical gardens & met the director Dr. Burkill a blond man of about 40 yrs. Dr. C.F. Baker I also met in the gardens where he is doing some economic botany for the Philipine government. He was formerly at Stanford as a special P.G. student. One of his brothers is the author Guy Standard Baker. Baker is an enthusiastic collector of plants & insects & a specialist on fungi & Hemiptera. He is returning to the Philipines in 9 months. The only rubber now grown for profit in the Straits is Heva or Para, the Ceara & Castillon