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Preparing for Publication, in about Twelve Parts, size royal quarto, 

 price 10s. 6d. each, with coloured plates, 



THE 



ZOOLOGY 



OF 



THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. SAMARANG; 



UNDER THE COMMAND OP 



CAPTAIN SIR EDWARD BELCHER, C.B., F.R.A.S., AND G.S. 



EDITED BY 



ARTHUR ADAMS, ASSISTANT-SURGEON, R.N., 



ATTACHED TO THE EXPEDITION. 



THE numerous interesting Generic and Specific forms of Animal Life, 

 collected during the Surveying Expedition of H.M.S. SAMARANG, 

 under the command of Sir Edward Belcher, being deemed of consider- 

 able zoological importance, the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's 

 Treasury have been pleased to sanction a liberal grant of money towards 

 defraying the expenses of their publication in a separate work. 



The 'SAMABANG', 26 guns, was commissioned in 1842, on the termina- 

 tion of the war with China, for the purpose of surveying the main ap- 

 proaches and seas adjacent to that Empire ; and the limits of this service 

 extending over the Eastern Seas from 35 North to 10 South Latitude, 

 enabled the Commander, and his Assistant-Surgeon, the Editor, to pro- 

 secute their researches over a widely extended range of islands, many 

 of which had been rarely visited. Among the more interesting of these 

 may be mentioned the far-off and little-known Islands of the Japanese 

 Empire ; the Island of Quelpart, and the unnumbered group constitu- 

 ting the Korean Archipelago in the Yellow Sea ; the Great Loo-Choo 

 and Meia-co-shima groups of islands in the Blue Sea ; the Batanese or 

 Bashee Islands in the China Sea ; and among the Oriental Archipelago, 

 the vast Island of Borneo and its equally interesting neighbour, Celebes ; 

 to which may be added Mindanao and Mindoro of the Philippines 



