MEMOIR 



OF 



SIR THOMAS-HST^feMFRD RAFFLES.* 



THE intention of these necessarily short memoirs 

 being to sketch the character, and detail the labours, 

 of those men who have advanced the science of Na- 

 tural History, some passages will not be deemed in- 

 appropriate, which have been collected from the ca- 

 reer of one, whose zeal for the advancement of this 

 study was ever shewn, when a short leisure from 

 the more important administration of his public duties 

 would allow ; and to whom the British Naturalist is 

 indebted for a Zoological establishment, which has 

 already rivalled the utility, and emulated the magni- 

 ficence, of the Continental institutions. 



The name of SirT. STAMFORD RAFFLES is inti- 

 mately connected with the political history of the 

 East, and it is no less so with that of its natural pro- 



* We are indebted to the kindness of Lady Raffles for 

 permission to copy the portrait,. from a bust by Chantrey, 

 which accompanies her interesting history o^ the Life and 

 public services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles. 



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