SIR THOMAS STAMFORD RAFFLES. 
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fit of his employers, the prosperity of those he super- 
intended, and the advancement of natural science. 
His works, with the exception of the History of Java, 
are chiefly contributions to the Asiatic and Batavian 
Transactions, and those of the Linnsean Society of 
London, upon the Antiquities and History of the 
Tribes and Country, and the Natural History of the 
Eastern Archipelago. But in this enumeration we 
must not neglect those which shared the fate of his 
collections. They included Histories of Sumatra, 
Borneo, Celebs, .Java and the Moluccas, and Singa- 
pore, besides Translations from ancient manuscripts. 
Dictionaries, Grammars and Vocabularies. While 
among the memoranda which he left, were the titles 
of several projected works, — “ Notes illustrative of 
the Natural History, and more especially the Geo- 
logy of the Malay Islands, containing Geographical 
and Geological Notices, with an account of some of 
the more remarkable Vegetable Productions, and the 
outline of a Fauna Malayana.” Another work, with 
the assistance of Dr. Horsfield, was thus sketched 
out ; “ Contents, introduction, — Geographical and 
Geological Outline of the Archipelago, — ditto of 
Java, with Plates, — ditto of Sumatra, >vith ditto, — 
and Journey to Menangkahu, — Banca, with a Map 
and abstract Memoir; principal Vegetable Produc- 
tions, and their Distribution and Localities, — Fauna 
Malayana,— Larger Animals, &c. Distribution and 
Account of, generally as introductory to the Descrip- 
