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many-sided personality will be long remembered in 

 Borneo. 1 



This book was written by the author during his long 

 illness. Knowing the activity of his mind and his long- 

 ing for work I suggested to him that the notes and 

 memories of seven years in Borneo would form the 

 foundation for a volume which, I was sure, would 

 interest many readers. So from time to time he worked 

 upon the manuscript, and it is pleasant to think of the 

 interest and brightness brought to weary hours by the 

 task. But the pain, which became worse and more 

 continuous towards the end, prevented him from com- 

 pleting his work, and the long delay in the appearance 

 of this volume is the direct result of the amount that had 

 still to be done before it was ready for publication. In 

 its preparation I have had much kind and efficient help 

 from several of the author's friends ; but help that is to 

 be of any use is almost invariably help given by those 

 who have already too much to do and cannot render 

 it continuously. Delay has been inevitable. In the 

 somewhat arduous task I have received the greatest 

 encouragement and assistance from my friend Dr. 

 G. B. Longstaff, whose book, Butterfly-hunting in Many 

 Lands, had been carefully read in proof by Shelf ord 

 another piece of work which brought interest and 

 pleasure to the hours of enforced idleness. Dr. Long 

 staff took the manuscript of the present volume with 

 him on a voyage to the Cape towards the end of 1913, 

 sending back the chapters as they were finished. Again, 

 in 1914 it accompanied me, on the memorable visit of 



1 This account of the author's life is founded on the present 

 writer's Obituary Notice in The Zoologist for July 1912. E. B. P. 



