ANNUAL REPORT 
OF THE 
COUNCIL 
oF THE 
STRAITS BRANCH 
OF THE 
ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, 
FOR THE YEAR 1881. 
——a 
Tuer Report of the Council of the Straits Branch of the Royal 
Asiatic Society for the year 1881, though unsatisfactory from its 
necessary brevity, and the fact that it records only one meeting of 
the members of the Society during the year, is satisfactory as shew- 
ing that the publications of the Society are regularly issued, and 
contain matter as interesting as those which preceded them, that — 
the finances of the Society are in a healthy state, and that the inter- 
change of publications with foreign Societies 1s increasing. 
It has been found so difficult to obtain the attendance of a 
quorum at a general meeting, and failure to secure even that 
limited number having dissolved more than one proposed meeting 
of the Society’s members, the Council was compelled, with regret, 
to abandon the idea of monthly or even two-monthly réunions for 
the purpose of hearing read the papers offered for pubheatinay in 
the Journal of the Society. 
‘It is satisfactory to be able to oe thet the new map of the 
“Malay Peninsula, published under the auspices of this Society, was 
received from the lithographers early in the year, and issued to 
members at half the price at which it was offered to the public. 
