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the Upper Samarahan and a handsome dark blackish-green 

 rock with white or pale green marblings which is found in the 

 distant Upper Rejang country, whence small specimens are 

 brought by the Kayans, who make this stone into ornaments. 

 It is probably a variety of Serpentine, 



In concluding this brief note T should mention that Silver 

 was inadvertently omitted in my list of the minerals which do 

 not come within the monopoly of the Borneo Company. 



A. H. E. 



Sarawak , 23rt? November, 1878. 



The Semangs. 



[The following letters, written by a distinguished authority 

 on the subject of which they treat, have been kindly placed at 

 the Society's disposal. Though written some years ago they 

 will still, it is believed, be found interesting.] 



Oxford University Museum, 



May 4, 1869. 



Professor writes to thank Colonel ■ — —for the 



trouble he has taken on behalf of the interests of the Museum 

 here in having the two aborigines photographed, and in desiring 

 the Raja of Kedah to procure a skeleton of one of these people. 

 The two photographs enclosed are taken from the new Museum 

 here, an institution comparatively recently superadded to the 

 old classical university. 



Some 8 or 9 papers have recently been written upon the 

 history and physical peculiarities of the Semangs, and the 

 Andamaners, who are supposed to be of the same stock. 

 Colonel Fytche, Colonel Campbell in his notes by an old 

 Sportsman, Mr. Earl, Lieutenant St. John, 60th Royal Rifles, 

 and a Pere Bonrieu have all written about either the Seiming 

 in P. Wellesiey or the Andaman Islanders, and all agree that 

 the continental dwarf black and the Islander are much the same. 

 Mr. Wallace, who spent manv years in the Archipelago to the 

 southward at Timor, Tern ate, Gilolo &c.,and has just brought out 

 a book, a very good one, in which he discusses all the Natural 

 History points, relating both to man and beast, agrees with these 

 gentleman in thinking the Semangs of the Malacca Peninsula 



