CONTENTS, 
VI 
XIV. 
Notes on the Coal deposits which have been discovered along 
the Siamese Coast from Pinang to the vicinity of Junkceylon. 
by Lieut Colonel Low, m. a. s. c. <fe c, m. R. A. s. .. .. 146-149. 
Visitto the coal district.—Ivayu Kamuning coal, 146.—Pulo Tiga ib. y 
146-7,—Anthracitic coal, 147.—Tama coal, ib .~Last coal, 149. 
xv. 
Discovery of coal in Ligor and Kedah on the West Coast of 
the Malay Peninsula, by J. R. Logan.151-168. 
Characters of the coal first discovered, 151.— Analogous coal from Rettie 
in Sumatra, 153.— The Gurbie or Temah coal and associated beds, ib. 
Prolessor Ansted’s remarks on the first coal, 154, —Correspondence be¬ 
tween the Governor of the Straits and the Govt, and Dr. O’Shaughnessy’s 
report on this coal, 155-160.— Later search and discovery of coal near 
S'. Kayu Kamuning, 160. —Character of this coal, 161. —Lapidified por¬ 
tions, passage of jet into crystals of silex, 162-4.— Iron pyrites, 164.— 
metarnorphic process similar to that suffered by rocks of Cape Rachado 
&c } ib .—Analogy to Singapore anthracite, 165. —Pluto lie deterioration of 
the coal of the Peninsula, ib .—overlying ironmasked layer, hydrated pe¬ 
roxide of iron resulting from the decomposition of pyrites, same in gra¬ 
nites of Pulo Besar near Malacca, and ferruginous dyke in granite of P. 
Mallang, 166-7.— Calcareous associated beds at Tama, fresh water shells 
—further information required, 167-8. 
XVI. 
Introductory Remarks to a series of contributions to the 
Ethnology of the Indian Archipelago, by J. R. Logan .. 171-182. 
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Materials presented by the Archipelago for ascertaining the elementary 
principles of ethonology, 171.—limit of identity in the development of 
races, 172.—causes of the spontaneous and natural growth of language, 
173.—Its value in comparative ethnography compared with that of habits 
and customs, 174.—historical value of the latter 175.—necessity for mi¬ 
nuteness and exactness of observation, 176.—importance of the ethnogra¬ 
phy of surrounding nations, 178.—Mr. Crawfurd’s rejection of the notion 
of a Polynesian language prevailing, from Madagascar to Eastern island, 
ib.note ,—humanizing and illuminating influence of ethnic enquiries,— 
language the grand evidence of the similarity of human life in ail nations, 
180.—necessity of compiling vocabularies, 182. 
XVII. 
A FEW REMARKS ON CONCHOLOGY AND MALACHOLOGY, COmprisingbricf 
notices of some of the more remarkable w Testaeca” in Singapore and its 
neighbourhood j with an appended catalogue of Singapore Shells arranged 
in conformity withLammarck’s System, by \YM. Traill, M. D. 225-241. 
Prefatory remarks, 225-228.—Paucity of larger shells, 228.—Greater 
