Extract of a letter from Mr. Crawford. 13ft. 



( 'opy of Letter from the Honorable Colonial Se- 

 cretary to the Society. 



Colonial Secretary's Office, 

 10th May 1847. 



Gentlemen, 



1. The Right Honorable (he Secretary of Slate having, in a 

 Despatch dated the 23rd December last, forwarded to His Ex- 

 cellency the Governor an Extract of a letter from a gentleman 

 in England who is now engaged in preparing a Grammar and 

 Dictionary of the Malay language, and who is desirous of ob- 

 taining some assistance in the prosecution of this work which 

 he conceives ii may be in the power of ihe public authorities 

 at this Island to afford him — 



2. I have His Excellency's directions to communicate to 

 yeu a copy of the Extract in question which explains the na- 

 ture of the information sought fur, and to request that you will 

 have the goodness to direct that resarch and inquiry may 

 be made, with a view to ascertain on what foundation rest the 

 facts stated in the last paragraph of the Extract. 



I have the honor to be, etc. 



Geo. F. DICK, 



Colonial Secretary. 



To the Society of Arts and Sciences. 



Extract of a letter from Mr. Crawford to Mr. 

 llawes, dated loth December 1846 



• I am preparing and have nearly finished a Grammar and 

 Dictionary of Malay, which t« the Indian Islands is what French 



