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II. The Timor Group : comprising the islands of 



Timor, Flores, Sumbawa, and Lornbock, with 

 several smaller ones. 



III. Celebes: comprising also the Snla Islands and 

 Bouton. 



IV. The Moluccan Group : comprising Bouru, Ceram, 

 Batchian, Gilolo, and Morty ; with the smaller 

 islands of Ternate, Tidore, Makian, Kaioa, Am- 

 boyna, Banda, Goram, and Matabello. 



V. The Papuan Group: comprising the great island 



of New Guinea, with the Am Islands, Mysol, 

 Salwatty, Waigiou, and several others. The Ke 

 Islands are described with this group on account 

 of their ethnology, though zoologically and geo- 

 graphically they belong to the Moluccas. 



The chapters relating to the separate islands of each 

 of these groups are followed by one on the Natural His- 

 tory of that group ; and the work may thus be divided 

 into five parts, each treating of one of the natural 

 divisions of the Archipelago. 



The first chapter is an introductory one, on the Physical 



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