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the volume I have added a selection of photographs of 

 Kuching, the capital of Sarawak and the author's Bornean 

 home, beginning with the Museum, the scene of his 

 labours. These plates have been prepared from Shelf ord's 

 negatives, and, indeed, the whole of the illustrations except 

 the Frontispiece and Plate XIV have been selected from 

 the material collected by him. Plate XIV, facing p. 169, 

 has been very kindly lent by the South London Ento- 

 mological and Natural History Society. 



The slight changes that have been introduced are the 

 direct result of the illness which prevented the author 

 from completing his task. Allowing for this, I hope and 

 believe that the book is what he would have wished it to 

 be. The volume opens with the chapters on the natural 

 history of the island. It will be realized by the reader 

 that the author's knowledge of the living animals of 

 Borneo was very wide and very intimate, and that these 

 chapters contain the most significant contributions to 

 learning that are to be found in the work. The con- 

 cluding chapters are full of charm, breathing the spirit of 

 living Nature and of man in the tropics, and revealing 

 the author as the keen and loving observer of both. 



E. B. P. 



