394 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [November, 1913. 
oulmein and, in an interesting letter ! published by the Geolo- 
gical Society of Italy (Bull. Soc. Geogr. Ital., 1888) dealt with 
€ Batu caves near Kuala Lumpur in the Malay State of 
Selangor were investigated by Ridley at the request of the 
British Association, in whose Report for 1898 (pp. 572-582) he 
published the results of his researches. Four caves are care- 
fully described and diagrams of two of them are given; the 
animals inhabiting their darker parts are recorded with notes 
on their habits. 
ings of the Zoological Society of London, 1900-1903), closely 
allied to those found by Fea in the Farm Caves. In June, 
July, October and November, 1902, the Jalor caves were 
visited again by Robinson and Annandale; their collections 
have been described in Fasciculi Malayenses (Liverpool, 1903- 
1905), in the supplement (<< Itinerary ’’) to which notes‘on the 
caves themselves will be found (pp. vi and xxv-xxviii 
has given certain particulars about those on the coast of Trang 
in the Supplement to Fasciculj Malayenses (p. xv) and in the 
anthropological part of that work (vol. I, p. 63). 
neient clay tablets found in caves in Trang and Kedah are 
described in the following papers :—‘* Short Notes on a Buddhist 
Votive Tablet ’’ by C. O. Blagden (Journ. Straits Branch Roy. 
8. Soc , 1903, p. 205); « Clay Tablets from Caves in Siamese 
Malaya’’ by A. Steffen with notes by Nelson Annandale (Man, 
vol. IT, No. 125, pl. M, 1902) ; ‘*‘ Notes on Clay Tablets from the 
Malay Peninsula’? by Rakhaldas Banerji, with an Introductory 
Note by N. Annandale (Journ, As. Soc. Bengal, {n. s.] vol. II, 
p. 459, 1907). 
The date of the tablets from Trang appears to be about 
the 8th to the 11th century a.D. Professor Kern of Leyden 
eae 
_ | Fea’s more detailed account of his wanderings (‘‘ Quatro Anni % 
Birmaine et le Tribu Limitri ”*)is unfortunately not available in Calcutta. 
