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tive Catalogue. Catalogue arranged scientifically 
■with relation to the order of Nature.” 
They would have embraced every department in 
the history of these countries, and the extensive 
•idew he took, leads us only more and more to regret 
their being lost to his successors in science. No 
natural history of the East can be given without 
introducing the labours of Sir Stamford Raffles, 
and as a patron of Natural History, his name will 
stand coupled with that of Sir Joseph Banks. 
It only remains that we close this biographical 
Memoir with some account of his elaborate and 
valuable History of Java, to which we already 
alluded, when adverting to the occasion of his re- 
ceiving the honour of Knighthood from the Prince 
Regent, in 1817- Though wTitten hastily, and 
for a special object, this interesting work contains 
a very ample detail of every thing connected -with 
that island and its inhabitants; — its antiquities; — 
the different races by whom it was originally peo- 
pled ; — its ancient and modem history ; — its geo- 
graphical situation ; — its animal, vegetable, and 
mineralogical productions ; — its climate, soil, ma- 
nufactures, commerce, and institutions ; — the state 
of the arts and sciences ; — the various dialects 
spoken by the natives; — their manners and cus- 
toms; — their religious ceremonies; — and forms of 
government. To enter into a description of all, or 
most of these particulars, would compel us to ex- 
