FKOCEEDINGS V 



Thanks to the permission accorded by the Committee of 

 Raffles' Library and Museum to make use of the Library 

 reading-room, no difficulty has been experienced with regard 

 to the place of meeting. Mne ''General Meetings" have taken 

 place, and 22 Papers have been read; comprising, amongst 

 others, original accounts of : — 



" Breeding Pearls, 11 " The Chinese in Singapore, their 

 Triad Societies, and their Immigration to the Straits," " The 

 Wild Tribes in the Peninsula and their Dialects," " The 

 Proverbs of the Malays," "The Snake-eating Serpent," "The 

 Dyak Mengap," "A Malay JSTautck at Pahang," "Agriculture 

 in the Straits," "The Metalliferous Formation of the Penin- 

 sula," "Rambau," " Pidgin English," and " Suggestions re- 

 garding a new Malay Dictionary." 



The first number of the Journal (nominally for July) was 

 actually published in September, owing to delay in the 

 printing ; and the 500 bound copies delivered have been dealt 

 with as follows : — 



Distributed to Members ... ... ... 160 



Do. to Councillors (extra) ... ... 12 



Do. to Contributors ... ... ... 12 



Do. to the Press ... ... ... 8 



Do. to Learned Societies ... ... 12 



On sale at Singapore, Bangkok, Hongkong, and Penang 95 



About 200 copies remain on hand, as well as about 

 100 copies of each paper unbound. 



The numbers actually sold are not accurately known yet. 

 It is believed they are not large. In the meantime, the 

 Society has escaped from any difficulty with regard to funds 

 through the cordial support it has met with from all classes 

 of the community. 



As yet only slight progress has been made towards the 

 formation of a library, and none whatever towards the collec- 

 tion of Malay Books and MSS. ; but there is at any rate 

 some prospect of a steady growth in the number of journals 

 and records exchanged for our own journal with kindred 

 Societies elsewhere. For example, a complete set of the 

 Eecords of the Indian Geographical Survey has been fur- 

 nished to us from India (12 vols.) and a communication has 

 been received from the President of the Ecole des Langues 

 Vivantes, accompanied with three rare publications regarding 



