GEOGRAPHICAL NOTES IN MALAYSIA AND ASIA. 



By the Rev. J. E. Tenison- Woods, F.G.S., F.L.S., &c. 

 Hon. Mem. Roy. Asiat. Soc. (Straits Branch). 



The following paper is founded on some of the brief notes made 

 on the geography and physical geography of the various countries 

 visited by me during the years 1883-84-85-86. Ifc will include 

 .some account of what was of principal interest to me in the 

 Malayan Peninsula and Indian Archipelago, southern and eastern 

 Asia, the Philippines and Japan. I have only to say by way of 

 introduction, that this paper is more brief on some details than 

 others, because they form the subject of special papers in the 

 Proceedings of this Society. 



JAVA. 



My objects in starting were mainly of a scientific nature. 

 Geology and botany were the principal subjects of my inquiries, 

 but at the same time everything connected with natural history 

 had what attention I covild give, while I lost no opportunity of 

 making collections in every department of natural science. 



I left Brisbane early in August, 1883, in the B. I. Co.'s Mail 

 Steamer " Chyebassa," bound for Java. After passing near 

 enough to Sumbawa to see some efiects of volcanic action we 

 came in sight of Lombok, the peak of which, 11,000 feet high, 

 was grandly visible above the clouds. I landed in the pilot boat 

 at Banjuwangi with two companions, Messrs. Weld-Blundell and 

 W. Allen, M.P., intending to spend a couple of months in the 

 examination of the whole of the island of Java. I have already 

 published an account of this portion of my travels through the 



