NOTES 



NOTE i, p. xxiv. Annual Cost of Sarawak Museum. The author 

 had not filled in the amount, which has been calculated from 

 the following statement of expenditure for 1905 in The Sarawak 

 Gazette, XXXV. (1905), p. 117 : 



Sarawak Museum $ c. 



Establishment ... , 41836 43 



Furniture and Stores 155 06 



Purchase of Specimens 405 45 



Miscellaneous 964 47 



Total 6,361 41 



Dr. Hose has kindly given me the following information as to the 

 Sarawak currency : " We use the Straits dollar, the value of which 

 is 2S. 4d. There are, however, Sarawak half-dollars, 2o-cent and 

 ro-cent silver pieces ; and also copper coins, i cent and cent. 

 100 cents go to i dollar, i cent is worth just over a farthing, its 

 exact value being 28d." The value of 6,361.41 dollars is therefore 

 approximately ^742 53. E. B. P. 



NOTE 2, p. 12. The "Soursop," Anona muricata, may have been 

 first introduced by the Dutch. C. H. 



NOTE 3, p. 13. A pair of Nasalis which I tried to bring to 

 England suffered so severely from sea-sickness that both died 

 before reaching Colombo. C. H. 



NOTE 4, p. 29, n. i Kink-tailed Siamese Cats. Dr. H. O. Forbes 

 kindly writes : 



" It is many a year since I made some remarks at the Liverpool 

 Biological Society probably four or five if I may venture a date 

 on that kink-tailed, blue-eyed, Siamese Cat. My memory is vague 

 as to their publication or not. My remarks referred to the interest I 

 had in exhibiting the creature's skin from the occurrence in the 

 East of what I had noted as extremely common, if not universal, in 



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