PMEFACS, 



whose acquaintance I had the pleasure of making in 

 Java, for a number of photograplis of scenery and of 

 natives, which have been of the greateat assistance to me, 

 Mr. William Wilson Saunders has kindly allowed me to 

 figure the curious horned fiies; and to Mr. Pasooe I 

 am indebted for a loan of two of the very rare Longicorns 

 wldch appear in the plate of Rornean beetles, tho 

 other specimens figured aivs in my own collectiotL 



As the main object of all my jounaeys was to obtaiQ 

 specimens of natural history, both for my private collec- 

 tion and to supply duplicates to museums and amateurs, I 

 will give a general statement of the number of specimens 

 I collected, and which reached home in good condition, I 

 must premise that I generally employed one or two, and 

 sometimes three Slalay servanta to assist me; and for 

 three years had the serWces of a young Englishman, Jlr. 

 Charles Allen. I was just eight years away from England, 

 but as I travelled about fourteen thousand miles within 

 the Aixjliipelago, and made sixty or seventy separate 

 joximeySj each involving some preparation and loss of 

 time, I do not think that more than six years were really 

 oc-cupied in collecting, 



I find that my Eastern collections amounted to : 



SIQ apeeimeus of Mammalia. 



100 — Reptiles. 



8,050 — Birds. 



7,600 — Shells, 



13,100 — I^pidopten, 



8S,200 — ("oleoptera, 



13,400 — other Insects. 



125,^60 ipedmena of oatur^ histoiy. 



It now only remains for me to thank all those friends 

 to whom I am indebted for assistance or infoinnation. My 

 thanks are more especially due to the Council of the "Royal 



