ANNUAL REPORT. xt 
mals, one on fishes, and one on insects, one important botanical 
paper by Dr. Merrill already mentioned, one Malay vocabulary, 
one on Malay History, and other papers on such diverse subjects as 
Contraband, Chinese Marriages, Malay Studies, the late Odoardo 
- Beccari. Altogether 21 papers were published against 25 in 1920. 
It was pointed out in the last Report that the burden of 
authorship falls on too few. In the list of Members published in 
April an asterisk was placed against the name of all those who had 
ever contributed papers to the Society’s Journal. 41 Members are 
thus distinguished. 
It is hoped that with the big influx of new Members—over 200 
in the last two years—the little band of authors will be considerably 
extended. The Journal now in preparation for issue early in 1922 
contains papers from Members who have not hitherto supported the 
Society in this way. But more are required. Particular attention 
may be drawn to the need of short articles or notes, which formed 
such an attractive feature of the earlier Journals. The Society’s 
field of work is wide, covering as it does the whole of the Malay 
Peninsula and neighbouring Malayan countries. Their history is 
as yet untold, their ethnological, zoological and botanical secrets 
still unravelled. 
Finances. The Hon. Treasurer’s statement of accounts for the 
year 1921 shows credit balances carried forward to 
the total of $1,632.96 against $1,609.27 at the end of 1920. A 
large reserve had necessarily been built up during the last three 
years to meet the heavy cost of printing Dr. Merrill’s important 
paper. To pay for this the Fixed Deposit of $2,000 was with- 
drawn, leaving our two investments (Victory Loan $2,500 and 
S. S. War Loan $2,200) untouched. 
Thanks to the large addition of new Members the subscriptions 
for the year showed a considerable increase over those for the pre- 
vious year: $1,490* against $1,130 for 1920. Ten Members com- 
pounded for life membership. The total number of Life Mem- 
bers is now 45, to which must be added 18 Honorary and 
Corresponding Members who pay no Subscriptions (although many 
of them have done so in the past before their election to the higher 
form of membership). The Council decided to set aside $2,500 
(invested in Victory Loan) as a “ Life Members’ Reserve.” Re- 
ceipts from sales of Journals and Maps, amounted to $949 against 
$765 in 1920. 
_ The cost of printing remains abnormally high and no relief 
in this direction appears likely as yet. With larger membership 
however the Council hopes to maintain an annual output of 300 
pages without recommending an increase in subscriptions. 
* The Hon. Treasurer’s statement shows $1,690 received during the 
year. This includes $110 for arrears of subscriptions (1919 and 1920), 
and $90 for subscriptions paid in advance (1922-24). 
