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great loss to the cause of science, he has lately perished, 
would have added much to what he has already contributed 
towards the history of the native races of the Austral Seas.” 
It will be gratifying to all the personal friends of Mr Earle 
in England, ami that larger class who are acquainted with 
him through his writings, to be told that we have a letter 
from Mr Earle now lying before us dated at Malacca the 3rd 
0 f this month, in which he says “l have already made a consi¬ 
derable progress in a e full, true and particular’ account of 
the tribes inhabiting the Fimor and Molucca seas, including 
the West Coast of Papua and North Coast ot Australia” 
which we hope very soon to place before our readers. 
2. Tijdschrift vnor Nederlandsch India Nos. 1 and 3 
(from Dr van Hoevell). 
3. Indisch Archiet Nos. 1 and 2 (from the Editors.) 
4. Bet Hegt in Nedertandsch Indie .Nos. 1 and 2 (from 
the Editors., 
5. The CJiinsse Repository for March and April (from 
the Editors.) 
6. Warnasari, for 1849 (from the Editor, Mr Deventer.) 
—We are delighted to see that this elegant Batavian annual 
is to continue to be carried on under such good auspices. 
7. Journal of the Agricultural and Horticultural So* 
defy of India , Part IV'of Vol. VI (from the Society.) 
8. The Calcutta Christian Observer (from the Editor.) 
TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. 
The present number of the Journal completes its second 
year, during which we have received the eontinuedand undimi¬ 
nished support of nearly all our Singapore subscribers, and 
the assistance of many able contributors, several of whom are 
men of established literary or scientific reputation, while the 
others may well claim to have laid a good foundation for 
theirs in the papers with which they have enriched our 
pages. It is owing to thmr zealous aid that we can congra¬ 
tulate our supporters on the fact that this Journal has now 
established itself both in England and America as an autho¬ 
rity on matters relating to theIhdian Archipelago. We do not 
draw this inference so much from the highly favorable notices 
of it which have appeared‘in leading scientific periodicals 
and more popular publications or the assurances of corres¬ 
pondents, as from the number of its papers that have been 
