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occasion, our President's Address, and Professor Nordenskjold's 

 reply are appended to this Report. Our Council felt that they 

 would be carrying out the wishes of Members in seizing an oppor- 

 tunity afforded them to acknowledge cordially the devotion to a 

 scientific course of which Professor Nordenskjold's career offers 

 so eminent an example. 



The Library is gradually increasing, through the exchanges 

 with other Societies, and occasional gifts of works suitable to its 

 shelves, and it now numbers 135 volumes. 



The Society may also congratulate itself upon having taken 

 an active part in urging upon Government the importance of 

 purchasing the late Mr. Logan's Philological Library, both to 

 assist students and to prevent the disposal of this unique collection. 

 The Government has since completed the purchase ; and the collec- 

 tion is now safely bestowed and available to all in the Raffles 

 Library. 



The Map of the Malay Peninsula, regarding the expenses of 

 which we have also appealed to Government for assistance, is now 

 in the hands of Messrs. Stanford & Co., of Charing Cross, and will, 

 it is hoped, before long be in the hands of Members. Some delay 

 was occasioned in endeavouring to correct and reconcile in the 

 Survey Office certain " bearings " of newly discovered mountain 

 peaks ; and also in copying the chart before sending it home — 

 assistance which deserves acknowledgment. It cannot be too clearly 

 explained that of the Peninsula, as a whole, this is in truth the first 

 Map, and that if by a Map is understood something correct and com- 

 plete, then it will not be one at all ; nor would it be for such a Socie- 

 ty as ours merely to be publishers of information already well known. 

 But this tracing, with its larger size and more numerous names, 

 will be of most service when it induces those who travel to furnish 

 corrections and additions, wherever our knowledge of the country 

 extends. Probably not one tenth part of the Peninsula has, even 

 at the present time, been traversed by Europeans, and it becomes 

 clear from the Geographical Notes, printed in each successive Jour- 

 nal, that if the Peninsula's Geography is ever to be really known, 

 explorations are required on a more comprehensive scale than can 

 be looked for in the occasional journals of district officers. 



The publication of a larger tracing is, in the meantime, a step 

 in the right direction, and for the means of publishing it, we are 

 largely indebted to the Governments of the Native States. 



The Vocabulary of words selected to assist in collecting the 

 Dialects of Wild Tribes has been published, and circulated to the 



