vi PREFACE. 
List of Dr. Kornte’s Manuscripts, received by 
Sir Josern Banks. 
Journal of his Voyage to Siam, commencing August 8, 
1778, and ending abruptly December 12, 1779. The part 
from February 22, to the end of April, is wanting. 
Journal of his Voyage from Madras to Trinkamaly, com- 
mencing April 15, 1780, and ending May 11, when he still 
was in Trinkamaly. 
Journal of his Voyage from Nagore to Ceylon, commen- 
cing January 7,1781, and ending April 11, when he was still 
in Ceylon. From a memorandum in another place, it ap- 
pears that he returned to Tranquebar August 23. 
The rest of his manuscripts consists chiefly of descriptions 
of plants: very little in them relates to animals, and still less 
to minerals. They are collected together in nineteen vo- 
lumes.* 
* Several letters to Linnzus, on the subject of Iceland, as also respecting the East 
Indies, are in the possession of the President of the Linnzean Society. 
A List of various Publications by Dr. Koentc. 
A Treatise on the White Ants, is found in the fourth vo- 
lume of the Berlin Transactions. 
An Account of the Ebony Tree; in the first volume of 
the Transactions of the Society of Lund. 
Several letters, relating to the Natural History of the East 
Indies ; in different volumes of the Transactions of the Royal 
Society of Copenhagen, and of the Society of Berlin: as also 
in the Naturforscher. 
A great number of plants discovered by Koenig, are found 
in Retzii Observationes Botanic. In the third Fasciculus, 
are printed Koenig’s Descriptiones Monandrarum; and in 
the sixth, his Descriptiones Epidendrorum. 
An Account of his voyage to Ceylon, in 1777, is found 
in Hennings’s Description of Tanjore, andthe Danish colony 
at Tranquebar. 
In part XX. of the Naturforscher is an Account of a new 
Genus of Plants, called Xylocarpus. 
In the ninth volume of the Commentationes of the Society 
of Gottingen is a Memoir, by Professor Murray, on the Trees 
which produce the Gummi Gutta, entirely drawn up from 
Koenig’s papers, sent to Professor Murray by Sir Joseph 
Banks. 
In the first volume of the Transactions of the Linnzan 
Society, Mr. Dryander has published Koenig’s Description 
of a new Species of Begonia; and in the second volume, his 
Description of Jambolifera. 
