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There is with all this so much originality and deep interest 

 in the subject, that the reader is carried along, without at all 

 thinking of the author himself. 



Our associate Mr Logan's Journal of the Indian Archi- 

 pelago and Eastern Asia continues to record most important 

 information of the Malay and other peoples of that Archi- 

 pelago. The history, antiquities, languages, and ethnology 

 of the Malays is gradually being brought to European know- 

 ledge by Mr Logan, and his band of contributors living 

 at and around Singapore, who are so praiseworthily labouring 

 for science in that distant region. 



Mr Logan's extensive knowledge of Malay dialects gives 

 a peculiar value to his philological researches, and his inti- 

 mate knowledge of the physical, intellectual, and moral cha- 

 racter of the Malays give him great vantage-ground in his 

 ethnological researches of the Indo-Pacific islands. The 

 ethnology of the central Malay nations is now becoming 

 more distinct, and is assuming a more definite outline, which 

 will clear the way to a fuller appreciation of the facts con- 

 nected with the outlying tribes and offshoots which are so 

 widely scattered over the islands of the Pacific. I commend 

 to your especial attention Mr Logan's researches, which you 

 will find recorded in the 4th and 5th volumes of his Journal 

 of the Eastern Archipelago. 



Captain Denham is now about to sail with an expedition 

 which is placed under his command to make a survey of 

 certain groups of islands on the east of Australia. We may 

 therefore expect new and valuable details of the Ethnology 

 of that region. 



I think the time has now arrived when a report on the 

 Ethnology of the Pacific Islands might be drawn up, by 

 which means special attention would be drawn to the nature 

 and amount of our ignorance of the details of that ethnology. 



We all regretted the early death of Captain Owen Stanley, 

 who died in command of the Rattlesnake, while on her sur- 

 veying voyage. Mr Macgillivray, the naturalist to the expe- 

 dition, has written an account of the scientific results of the 

 voyage. Very important knowledge has been collected in 

 various departments of science. Amongst others, some 



