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tive Catalogue. Catalogue arranged scientifically 

 with relation to the order of Nature." 



They would have embraced every department in 

 the history of these countries, and the extensive 

 view he took, leads us only more and more to regret 

 their heing lost to his successors in science. No 

 natural history of the East can be given without 

 introducing the labours of Sir Stamford Raffles^ 

 and as a patron of Natural History, his name will 

 stand coupled with that of Sir Joseph Banks. 



It only remains that we close this biographical 

 Memoir with some account of his elaborate and 

 valuable History of Java, to which we already 

 alluded, when adverting to the occasion of his re- 

 ceiving the honour of Knighthood from the Prince 

 Regent, in 1817- Though written hastily, and 

 for a special object, this interesting w r ork contains 

 a very ample detail of every thing connected with 

 that island and its inhabitants ; its antiquities ; 

 the different races by whom it was originally peo- 

 pled ; its ancient and modern history ; its geo- 

 graphical situation; its animal, vegetable, and 

 mineralogical productions; its climate, soil, ma- 

 nufactures, commerce, and institutions ; the state 

 of the arts and sciences; the various dialects 

 spoken by the natives; their manners and cus- 

 toms; their religious ceremonies; and forms of 

 government. To enter into a description of all, or 

 most of these particulars, would compel us to ex 



