MEMOIR 
OF 
SIR THOMAS STAMFORD RAFFLES 
The mteittion of these npcpssarily short memmrs 
being- to sketch the tharact^^r, and detail the iaWursj 
of those men who have advanced the science of Na- 
tural Histor'T, Homt* pa'^sas'ps will not be <!t»(?mtjd in- 
appropriate^ which have heen collected from the ca- 
reer of otje, whose zeal for the advancenitMit of this 
studjr was ever shewn, when a i*lHirt l*^tsure from 
the more im|>ortant atltrtiinHtratioiii of hm [niblic dnties 
would allow ; nnd to whom the Britif^h Naturali«i «» 
indebted for a Zonlo^irical establishment, which haa 
already rivalled the utility, and emulated the magni- 
Bcence,, of the Continental institutions;. 
The name of SirT. Stamfoud Raffles is inti- 
mately connected with the poiitical history of the 
East, and it is no leas so with that of its natural pro- 
• Wo are jndtbi<wt to the kindncsft of Lad)' Ilnffles for 
pernn^jijoti to copy the portrait, from n buiit by Chantrey* 
whieh wccomptinics her intert-atrng history of tho Lift' iiii'l 
public Bprvicra of Sir Thomo* Stamford Kafflcs, 
VOL. IV. 
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