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Colonies; Inquiries should be addressed to the president, Mining- 

 Institute at Delft. 



7. Het Batak Instituut (The Batak Institute) at Leiden. This 

 society makes a special study of the Batak countries. 



8. Het Atjeh-Instituut; het Bali-Instituut ; het Oostkust van 

 Sumatra-Instituut ; het Minangkabau Instituut; het Zuid-Sumatra- 

 Instituut; het Molukken-Instituut ; (The Atjeh Institute; the Bali 

 Institute; the East-coast of Sumatra Institute; the Minangkabau 

 Institute; the South-Sumatra-Institute; the Moluccas Institute). - 

 All six of these, which are run according to the example of 7, were esta- 

 blished at the instance of the Colonial Institute, and cooperate with it. 



9. Kegarding various districts and especially for ethnological and 

 linguistic material, valuable information may be obtained from the 

 Board of the Nederlandsch Zendings-Genootschap (Dutch Missionary 

 Society) at Oegstgeest (near Leiden). 



B. Institutions in the Neth. Indies: 



1 . Koninklijke Natuurkundige Yereeniging (Royal Physical Society) 

 at Weltevreden, to which at present a Committee for Yulcanology 

 is attached. 



2. Bataviaasch Genootschap voor Kunsten en Wetenschappen 

 (Batavian Society for Arts and Sciences) at Weltevreden. 



3. Indisch Comite voor Wetenschappehjk Onderzoek (Indian 

 Committee for scientific research (cooperates with No. A 1). 



C. Among the Government Institutions in the Indies the 

 following should be mentioned. 



1. Encyclopaedisch bureau (Encyclopaedic Office) at Weltevreden 

 (especially geography and ethnology). 



2. 's Lands Plantentuin (Government Botanical Gardens) at Buiten- 

 zorg (biology). 



3. Meteorologisch Observatorium (Meteorologic Observatory) at 

 Weltevreden. 



4. Hoofdbureau van het Mijnwezen (Head-office of the Mining- 

 Department) at Weltevreden (geology). 



5. Laboratorium voor Zee-onderzoek (Laboratory for Oceanic- 

 exploration) at Weltevreden. 



Among the larger libraries, where scientific works on the Neth. 

 Indies are to be found, the most important is, that of the joint 

 institutions A3 and A4 at the Hague, called Colonial Library (14 

 v. Galenstraat: open to the public 10 4). This excellent collection 

 is not only almost complete with respect to the Neth. Indies, but 



