ANNUAL EEPOET. XIY. 



The following gentlemen resigned their Membership: 

 Mr. Thoeold Dickson, Mr. BuKKiNSHAW,andMr.DiETHELM; 

 and the Council regret to have to record the loss by death of 

 Sir E. C. BOYILL, and Mr. H. M. Bechee. 



During the year it was resolved by the Council that, owing- 

 to the constant delay in publishing the Journal, the printing 

 should be put into the hand of the Manager of the American 

 Mission Press ; one number of the Journal was at that time 

 being printed by the Government Press, and this w^th another 

 printed simultaneously by the Mission Press will shortly be in 

 the hands of the members. 



The delay in the printing of the first number was caused 

 by unusual stress of work at the Government Press, while an 

 accident to machinery caused delay in the number printed at 

 the Mission Press. The Council hope that the next numbers 

 will be printed with gTeater rapidity. The new edition of the 

 map is well in hand. Great assistance has been given by the 

 various Residents of the Native States, the Resident Councillors 

 of Penang and Malacca, and others, who have supplied revised 

 copies of the maps of different States, and have sent plans of 

 surveys of various little-known districts. Copies of the published 

 maps of Perak, Siam, and Johor have also been received from 

 those Governments, w4th permission to utilize them in the 

 new edition. The coast- line has undergone much revision, 

 and the latitude of several points has been more correctly 

 determined. 



The Council desire to express their great regret at the 

 death of Mr. H. M. Bechee, who had taken an active interest in 

 the compilation of the map and had devoted much time to it, 

 and who indeed lost his life ^Yliile exploring the Tahan district, 

 in Pahang, in the interests of Geographical Science, 



