38^ Life of Sir Stamford Raffles. 



I do not despair therefore of seeing our fair country-women at 

 home, as well as abroad, employing these living Gems to add to 

 the splendour of their attire. At the Havannah they are collected 

 and sold for ornamenting the Ladies' head dresses at evening par- 

 ties, when they are, I understand, generally confined under gau^e 

 which covers the head, and from amongst the ringlets of hair these 

 terrestrial stars shine forth with all their beauty. 



Art. XXXIX. Some account of the Life and Writings^ 

 and Contributions to Science^ of the late Sir Thomas 

 Stamford Raffles, Knt.^ F.R.S., S.A. Sf L.S.^ SfC; 

 successively Lieutenant-Governor of Java and its depen^ 

 dencies, and of Fort Marlborough, Singapore, and the 

 British Possessions in Sumatra : Founder and Presi- 

 dent OF THE Zoological Society. 



Bz/ E. W. Brayley, Jun,, A,L.S., <^ M. Zool. Soc. 



[Continued from p. 48.] 



The official transactions of the subject of this memoir, in every 

 situation he filled, were such as may be contemplated with much 

 pleasure, even by those persons who do not take any particular 

 interest in the concerns of civil or political government, and whose 

 attention is principally directed to a more elevated range of sub- 

 jects connected with intellectual pursuits, and the progressive 

 mental improvement of the human race. This peculiarity arises 

 from the marked sagacity, the benevolent regard to the best 

 interests of mankind, the grandeur of conception and the acuteness 

 of discernment, which these transactions display, and the corres- 

 ponding tone of mind they induce upon the reader. They claim 

 in the highest degree the attention of that class of the British 

 public, the members of which regard, with an anxious and a vigi- 

 lant eye, the mighty revolution now undergoing by all human 



