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fit of his employers, the prosperity of those he super- 

 intended, and the advancement of natural science. 

 His works, with the exception of the History of Java, 

 are chiefly contributions to the Asiatic and Batavian 

 Transactions, and those of the Linnaean Society of 

 London, upon the Antiquities and History of the 

 Tribes and Country, and the Natural History of the 

 Eastern Archipelago. But in this enumeration we 

 must not neglect those which shared the fate of his 

 collections. They included Histories of Sumatra, 

 Borneo, Celebs, Java and the Moluccas, and Singa- 

 pore, besides Translations from ancient manuscripts, 

 Dictionaries, Grammars and Vocabularies. While 

 among the memoranda which he left, were the titles 

 of several projected works, " Notes illustrative of 

 the Natural History, and more especially the Geo- 

 logy of the Malay Islands, containing Geographical 

 and Geological Notices, with an account of some of 

 the more remarkable Vegetable Productions, and the 

 outline of a Fauna Malayana." Another work, with 

 the assistance of Dr. Horsfield, was thus sketched 

 out : " Contents, introduction, Geographical and 

 Geological Outline of the Archipelago, ditto of 

 Java, with Plates, ditto of Sumatra, with ditto, 

 and Journey to Menangkabu, Banca, with a Map 

 and abstract Memoir ; principal Vegetable Produc- 

 tions, and their Distribution and Localities, Fauna 

 Malayana,- Larger Animals, &c. Distribution and 

 Account of, generally as introductory to the Descrip- 



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