X1V ANNUAL REPORT. 
The following members withdrew their subscriptions at the 
end of the year:—Dr. BIEBER, the Rev. L. C. Biaes, G. R. 
LAMBERT, Esq., and PETER Nuy, Esq. 
The Abbé FAVRE died in France on the 17th March last 
year, in his 76th year, and the following minute was entered 
in the proceedings of a meeting of the Council of the Society 
held on the 3rd June, 1887:— 
‘“ The Council desire to record their sense of the great loss 
sustained by the Society and all interested in Malayan litera- 
ture, inthe death of one who was so distinguished a Malay 
scholar and lexicographer.”’ 
The new edition of the Map of the Peninsula was completed 
and sent to Mr. E. STANFORD for publication in June last, with 
the further geographical information referred to in the Annual 
Report for 1886. At the suggestion of Mr. STANFORD, the 
names in Malay character, which appeared in the Map of 1879, 
were omitted, as being likely to interfere with the clearness of 
the map. 
No estimate has yet been received of the probable cost of 
publication by the Society, but it has been found possible to 
make use of some of the stones used in printing the old map, 
and thus a saving will be effected. 
Two hundred copies of the Second Series of ‘Essays re- 
lating to Indo-China,” published for the Society by Messrs. 
TRUBNER & Co., were received in December. The Council, 
with a view to speedily recovering a part of the cost of publi- 
cation, resolved to sell the work to Members at half the cost 
price—z.e., $3—and it is to be hoped that Members will avail 
themselves of the opportunity thus offered. 
The Library of the Society was moved into the new Raffles 
Museum at the end of the year, and, through the kindness of 
Government, room has been found both to accommodate its 
book-shelves and to serve Members for a reading-room. 
