where he might, perhaps, in a couple of 
summers, double all the plants hitherto 
-. known as natives of Chili. The unexplored 
_ Archipelago of Chili merits the greatest 
. attention, and would, perhaps, by itself, 
repay the sending out a traveller, but the 
central provinces have been so well exa- 
mined, and during half of every year are 
. . 80 dry, that they would never reward one 
1 who visited them with the sole view of 
ying their botanical productions. 
* [n comparison with other countries, 
possessed of an equally favourable climate, 
the Northern part of Chili is very poor in 
animal life. Insects are scarcely seen; of 
Mammalia there are only some of the 
smaller Rodentia, or gnawing kinds; and 
Birds, though more numerous, are still 
comparatively few. But south of the Monte, 
the general aspect of the country alters 
strikingly in this respect ; and on the lower 
districts of the coast, the birds are just as 
abundant as on the mountains they are 
scarce; while the immense swarms which 
resort to the Archipelago of Chiloé would 
. afford almost interminable employment to 
the Ornithologist. coast of Concep- 
cion and vicinity of Talcahuana are exceed- 
ingly rich in marine animals of the lower 
tribes, and the winter might be profitably 
Spent by an experienced person in ex- 
amining them." 
The Author adds, that “ every traveller 
quits Chili with reluctance, especially on 
account of the higher character of the na- 
. tives for moral excellence than is found 
. among the inhabitants of any of the other 
_ Spanish colonies; and that this oft-named 
A Naples of America equally excels the other 
parts, in its beauty and agreeableness as a 
 Tesidence.' 
EN OF MALAYAN 
ANTS. 
Ei Jack. 
| With a ane ne the Anna and Extracts from 
se his Correspon 
To the European Botonist the name of 
3 Sous Jack is at present scarcely 
; but no one can have direc 
cedem and studies to the Flora 
MEMOIR OF THE LATE MR. WILLIAM JACK. 
121 
Southern India, especially if he had the 
opportunity of consulting the ** Malayan 
Miscellanies,” a very rare work, published 
at the Sumatran Mission press, at Bencoo- 
len, without finding how much the Flora of 
India is indebted to the learning and in- 
defatigable researches of that gentleman. 
Nor was he remarkable for these qualities 
alone, calculated as they are to entitle him 
to the consideration and esteem of every 
man of science. Dr. Wallich says, in a 
note at vol. i. p. 202, of the Flora Indica, 
published at Serampore in 1824, when 
alluding to some new plants discovered in 
the Malay Islands, by Mr. William Jack : 
—“ I was in hopes of meeting again with 
this most zealous naturalist at Singapore, 
last year, when I was obliged to visit that 
island, on account of a severe fever which 
I had contracted on my way down to the 
plains from Nipal But it was otherwise 
ordained ; and I have now to claim the 
sympathy of the reader, while I indulge 
a moment in rendering a feeble tribute of 
respect and friendship to his memory, 
leaving it to the pen of Sir Stamford 
Raffles, the revered friend and patron of 
us both, to do it far ampler justice. Dur- 
ing Mr. Jack's short and unostentatious, 
but highly useful and meritorious career, 
his comprehensive mind extended to every 
branch, almost of moral and physical 
science, with a degree of success, which 
the world has ample opportunities of ap- 
preciating, from his numerous valuable 
contributions to the common stock of in- 
formation, both printed and manuscript. 
To his family and friends, the loss of such 
a man is indeed irreparable; nor can it be 
replaced to the public, but by an equally 
fortunate combination of first-rate talents, 
with the utmost suavity of temper and 
urbanity of manners.” In the same volume, 
Dr. Wallich dedicated a “ very e 
branchy and umbrageous forest tree,” t a 
native of these small islands, in the vicinity 
of Sincapore, of the natural order Ru- 
1 Of this beautiful tree, with its ample fol 
and "rE panicle of flowers, Dr. Wallich has given a 
figure in his splendid “ Plante Rariores bee 
t. 293. 
