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Rothschild's collector iii Ulu Pahang; and a blue whistling thrush, 

 new to science, which has been descril)ed by ]\Tr. W. K. Ogilvie- 

 Grant, of the British Museum. A small squirrel proved to be (S'ci»y (ts 

 riifUfenis, hitherto not known from the Malay Peninsula and supposed 

 to be confined to the uiountain districts of Burma and Teuasserim. 

 Another extremely rare squirrel, Rhinosciurus laticaudafns, was also 

 obtained within the town limits of Kuala Lumpur. 



The collections made un Gunong Tahan and in its vicinity have 

 been sent to the British Museum, in accordance with the terms of the 

 agreement whereby the Trustees of that institution paid a consider- 

 able proportion of the expenses of the expedition ; but it is anticipated 

 that the balance remaining after the first set has been deposited in the 

 national collection will provide a number of species not hitherto 

 represented in either the Perak or Selaugor Museum. The numerous 

 other additions. vertel>rate and invertebrate, call for no special remark. 



II. ETHNOLOGICAL. 



As in 19U4 very special attention was paid to this department, and 

 the accessions, mostly from Negri Sembilan and Pahang, are very 

 numerous. The collection of native wood carving has been much 

 extended and further additions have been made to the series of 

 handmade pottery, which now (.-omjirises examples of nearly every 

 fabric known from the Federated Malay States, including two beautiful 

 specimens of a type of incised work now no longer made. A large 

 number of spears, showing the development of the blade from a wcioden 

 model, were purchased and numerous specimens of the less common 

 types of weapons. Several examples of old brass and silver work were 

 also secured, including two waist buckles of silver, "jadam," the 

 manufacture of which is now a lost art on this side of the Peninsula. 



Mr. Cecil Wray, Resident of Pahang, kindly purchased for the 

 Museum a most interesting set of miscellaneous ethnological specimens, 

 mostly from Pekan. including a curious tuinhok Jada, or dagger, "with 

 a bronze blade. 



Whilst at Kuala Tembeling I also made a small but varied collec- 

 tion, amongst whicli there may be mentioned a set of the dies used in 

 making the pottery for which the district is famous and several fine 

 specimens of " batvi lintar" or neolithic celts dug out of the sand 

 banks which border the Tembeling in several places. At the end of 

 the year a visit was paid to Linggi, where several unique and curious 

 objects were purchased, inckiding a set of the implements used in the 

 " zunnat " operation. 



III. MINERALOOY, GEOLOGY AND ECONOMIC PROBUCTS. 



Works on these groups was entirely suspended, pending the trans- 

 ference of the collection to the new Museum, but arrangements have 

 been made wherebv the technical collections made bv the Mines, 



