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MEMOin OF 
ttuctions. It Will now be our endeavour to review 
liis diBcoveriea and rem*ari-i(es in the Natural History 
of thme iuienrsi'mq: t-oujitri«-!«, sfpanittnl nn fur as 
pONi^Uile frnti) t]K* (lelailH of Iuh ardumis and iaiport- 
aiit public serviws. Fur ihh purpose we have been 
iadvbied diiefly to the intereHtiti;^ volume, puhliHlied 
«onUf years Hince umkT ihi" HU|)erinten(letict; of his 
amiable widow, and which has furnished those parts 
intruclut.'t!!tl frotn his currespontlence» with the de- 
ecripliuns of his oxcursioQs in tlut interior of Suma- 
tra ; wliilw tiic History of Java, and the Farlous papers 
u'hich bir Thomas hus hiniHulf publislii'd, have af- 
forded luaierialti for the other parts. In ibe progress 
«f the i>iketrl) k witi he seen that the researches of 
this niituraUst were not coiiiined to one hrantrh of 
iue bvit'Ui'e, but tliat evi^ry department, both of the 
liistory of thu^ inhaliitaniH ot ibuse ttjlandH, and iheir 
natural productions^ were carefully studied. We 
iiiive alluded to the ciiSerent objeL-U iutrofiut-ed^ with- 
out any system or arratii;emi>ni but ui they »<eemed 
lo have occurred to the iwiice of the indiFidual. 
Some of them ftre well known Ity \m own deacrip* 
lions or iUuiit^ate the beaulifol works of hi^ friau!^ 
a»d cojupanioua in rese-arch and ailminislraiiou * ; and 
bnt tor the awful and overwhehning catastrophe 
whicit oct'Ut red on thts eve of his di'paiture, many 
an unknown production of that rich archipelago 
would have assisted in the embellishment of the 
exJdeiisive works which he contemplated. HaFing 
• HorsSeld, Wallich, &c. 
