ANNUAL REPORT. XV 
The Council would take this opportunity of recording their 
sense of the valuable services rendered by Mr. COPLEY to the 
Society in arranging the Library previous to his departure 
for Malacca. 
An “‘Eastern Geography” by Professor A. H. KEANE, in 
pursuance of the recommendations of the Society in former 
Reports, was published in London during the year. The 
first part, which treats of the Malay Peninsula, is based on the 
elementary work of the Hon’ble A. M. SKINNER, published 
under the auspices of the Society in 1884, and the author 
acknowledges the assistance he has received from the mate- 
rials collected on the spot for the other sections also. The 
work is intended primarily for educational purposes in the 
Straits Settlements, but the feature of the book is that it em- 
bodies the information collected by the most recent explorers 
in these regions, such as FORBES and CHALMERS. 
The Council have again to acknowledge the liberality of 
the Straits Government in continuing the grant to the Society 
of $500, without which assistance it would hardly have been 
possible to publish the new edition of the map of the Penin- 
sula this year. 
No. 18 of the Journal was published since the last General 
Meeting. It contains the following papers :— 
Essay towards a Bibliography of Stam—Part Il, by E. 
M. SATOW, C.M.G. 
English, Sulu and Malay Vocabulary—by T. H. 
HAYNES (Malay portion by W. E. MAXWELL, 
C.M.G.). 
Raja Donan, A Fairy Tale, told by a Malay Rhapso- 
dist—Contributed by W. E. MAXWELL, C.M.G. 
The Survey Question in Cochin-China, translated from 
the “Bulletin de la Société des Etudes Indo- 
Chinoises de Saigon” with an intreduction—by W. 
E. MAXWELL, C.M.G. 
