ANNUAL REPORT. XV 



ment in accordance with agreement, about fifty copies have 

 been disposed of. Owing to the continued support of the 

 Government of the colony, to whom the Society is indebted 

 for a grant of §500 for the year 1887, ^ e Council has been 

 able to carry out the intention, indicated in the Annual Report 

 for 1885, of continuing the series of reprinted papers by the 

 publication of two additional volumes. These are approach- 

 ing completion, and are edited, like the first series, by Dr. R.EIN- 

 HOLD ROST. They will contain papers reprinted from the 

 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal , the Journal of the 

 Royal Asiatic Society, the Malay Miscellanies (originally 

 published at Bencoolen), and the Verhandelingen van hct 

 Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen. 



To the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences the thanks 

 of our Society are especially due for their kind permission 

 to reprint the late Mr. J. R. Logan's paper on the Rocks of 

 Pulau Obin, and the valuable notes of Mr. W. P. GROENE- 

 VELDT on the Malay Archipelago. 



There is no intention of proceeding further at present with 

 the republication of selected papers on the East Indian 

 Archipelago. The Council would, however, express a hopa 

 that, at some future time, the translation and publication 

 of a series of selected papers contributed by distinguished 

 Dutch Orientalists to the Journals of learned Societies in 

 Holland and Java may be undertaken by our Society. 



The new Map of the Peninsula, mentioned in the last 

 Annual Report, was finished in 1886, but before it could be 

 transmitted to England, further geographical information 

 relative to the northern portion of the Peninsula was received 

 from the Siamese Government, and the publication of the 

 Map is delayed until this can be incorporated in it. 



While alluding to the subject of Geography, the Council 

 cannot but record the loss which the Society has sustained in 

 the death of Mr. W. CAMERON, whose explorations have added 

 so much to our knowledge of the States of Selangor, Pahang, 

 and other portions of the Peninsula. The following notice of 

 Mr. CAMERON'S death and services appeared in the Straits 

 Times of the 20th November 1886 : — 



11 Our readers will leatr. with regret of the death of Mr. 



