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PREFACE 
ary however being modified to follow Wallace's line between Celebes 
and Borneo, Lombok and Bali. The Zoological collections of the 
Baffles Museum and its present collecting activities are limited to 
this square for which the collective name Malaysia may be used. 
Of some 250,000 people who visit the Baffles Museum annually, 
about 5 per cent only are Europeans and perhaps 20 per cent only 
are able to read English, The remainder for the most part are 
illiterate or able to read only Malay, Chinese, Tamil or some other 
Eastern language. Tins Guide will therefore be of interest mainly 
to three classes of visitors: the English-speaking resident of Singa- 
pore, the traveller (of whom many thousands pass through eix route 
for all parts of the world), and the Singapore school boy. To these 
it is hoped that this and subsequent Guides will serve as a useful 
Introduction to the wonders of Nature in Malaysia. 
