A DISCOURSE, &C. 11 



Having tlius taken a retrospective view of the 

 Society, from ils fiist iiistitution until the period 

 when it was new modelled uiider the regulations 

 of last year, I shall proceed bricflj to notice 

 the contents of the volume, which is now sent 

 to the Press^ and to communicate such sug-ges- 

 tions as occur to nie with regard to our future 

 proceedings. 



In various branches of Natural History, 

 Doctor Horsfield is eminently conspicuous, and 

 the papers which will now come before the 

 public from his pen, are highly interesting to 

 Science. On the 4ntiquities and Native History 

 of the ïsland, some light is thrown by Lieute- 

 pant Colonel Mackenzie, Surveyor General oa 

 the Madras Establishment, in his interesting 

 Tract on the Ruins of Prambana, forming the 

 Capital of one of the early dynasties of this 

 Island ; and on the Island of Borneo^ some in- 

 teresting data are furnished on which to found 

 our further enquiries in that immense Island, 

 from the pen of the late Dr. Leyden. The cir- 

 cumstances under which this paper was writtea 

 are stated in a note annexed to the paper itself. 



Had our late valuable Secretary, Dr. Hicnfcr, 

 been spared hut a few months, the present volume 

 Would not have uade its appearance without 



