RIDLEY, Henry Nicholas (SINGAORE), M.A., F.L.S., F.K.U.S., F.S.A.; Director of Gardens; b. Dec. 10, 1855. Educ: Haileybury. Exeter College, Oxford. Held Burdett-Coutts Geological Scholarship, Oxford; entered British Museum. Botanical Department; Expedition to Fernando de Noronha. Brazil, for Royal Society, 1886; been me-Director of Gardens and Forests, Straits Settlements, 1888; hon. Secretary, Straits branch, Royal Asiatic Society; visited Christmas and Cocos Islands as cominissioner for Straits Government, 1890, made collecting expeditions to various parts of Malay Peninsula, Sumatra. Borneo,.lava, and Christmas Island,. 1904; corresponding Member Pharmaceutical Society and Zoological Society; Member of Society for Physchical Research; Corresponding Member, Ethnological Society of Moscow. Address: Botanic Gardens, Singapore, Straits Settlements.