MEMOIR 
OF 
SIR THOMAS STAMFORD RAFFLES.* 
The intention of these necessarily short memoirs 
being to sketch the character, and detail the labours, 
of those men who have advanced the science of Na- 
tural History, some passages will not be deemed in- 
appropriate, which have been collected from the ca- 
reer of one, whose zeal for the advancement of this 
study was ever shewn, when a short leisure from 
the more important administration of his public duties 
would allow ; and to whom the British Naturalist is 
indebted for a Zoological establishment, which has 
already rivalled the utility, and emulated the magni- 
ficence, of the Continental institutions. 
The name of Sir T. Stamford Raffles is inti- 
mately connected with the political history of the 
East, and it is no less so with that of its natural pro- 
■ We are indebted to the kindness of Lady Raffles for 
permission to copy the portrait, from a bust by Chnntrey, 
which accompanies her interesting history o*‘ the Life and 
public servicea of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles. 
VOL. IV. 
