1 62 Voyage of the Novara. 



collection consists chiefly of specimens from Borneo, Sumatra, 

 and the adjoining islands. 



Among: the educational institutions most deservino^ of 

 attention and recognition must be specially noticed the 

 school for the instruction of Malay boys and girls, under the 

 management and preceptorship of that most deserving mis- 

 sionary, Mr. B. P. Keasberry, who has pursued a career of 

 useful activity in this Archipelago during thirty years past. 

 The parents of the children taken in here have to contribute 

 to their support, and to leave them there for at least ten years, 

 under the affectionate spiritual care of the missionary, and 

 must not remove them till after the expiry of that period. 

 This condition was rendered necessary by the fickleness of the 

 Malay natm^e, which otherwise would frequently withdraw 

 the children from the supervision of the missionary at the 

 very moment when they were beginning to become amenable 

 to the influences of instruction in Christianity and civilization. 

 The Institution is supported partly by voluntary contribu- 

 tions, partly by the profits of a printing business, in which, 

 however, hardly anything is printed except educational and 

 religious works in the Malay language. Mr. Keasberry was 

 so kind as to present us with a small collection of the works 

 thus published during the past year, comprising among others 

 a dictionary of the English and Malay languages, the New 

 Testament, a volume of Natural History, a Manual of Geo- 

 graphy, a Universal History, a Biblical History, and numer- 

 ous educational works in Malay for the use of the pupils. 



