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the Malay and Javanese languages. The Batavian Society 

 of Arts and Sciences has also offered its hearty support ; and 

 in all these cases our correspondents have volunteered their 

 assistance. It is our Society which has been sought ; and 

 this may be regarded as a recognition of the useful position 

 it is calculated to fill in relation to other Scientific Associa- 

 tions. 



The Council would here more particularly acknowledge 

 the co-operation they have met with from the Foreign Con- 

 suls in Singapore, through whose aid they look to obtain a 

 wider basis for their proceedings, and the great advantage 

 of exchanging publications with Foreign as well as with 

 English " learned Societies." 



In addition to the General Meetings, the publication of 

 the Society's Journals, and the formation of the Society's 

 Library, the Council has addressed itself to certain questions 

 of a more practical character, such as the preparation of a 

 new map of the Peninsula, the recommendation to Govern- 

 ment to purchase the late Mr. Logan's Philological Library, the 

 indexing of the 12 vols, of that distinguished man's Journals 

 of the Archipelago, the publication of a new Dictionary, and 

 the preparation and distribution of a serviceable Vocabulary 

 to assist in collecting the Dialects of Wild Tribes. 



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With regard to the new Map, and to the purchase of Mr. 

 Logan's Philological Collection, though neither of these 

 matters has } T et been definitely settled, the Council wishes 

 here to acknowledge the powerful support afforded by Go- 

 vernment to the objects which this Society has been formed 

 to promote; and it may be mentioned that one of the difficul- 

 ties in the way of publishing an improved map — the want of 

 funds — has been to a great extent removed by the Govern- 

 ment's undertaking to distribute among the Native States 

 200 copies at the price of §2 each. 



As to the still more serious difficulty, the want of exact 

 information regarding the countries that form the Peninsula 

 — most of which is still unexplored — something has already 

 has done by the Society. The River Triang, connecting 

 JelSbu with the main stream of the River Pahang, was des- 

 cended by a traveller from S. Ujong last June, thus clear- 

 ing up a large portion of the water-system of the Pahang, 

 and incidentally explaining the hitherto mysterious connec- 

 tion "between Jelei and the Negri Sembilan, The prosecution 



