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MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES, <&(•. 
emulation is beginning to shew itself amongst the Malays, as a 
company of them, I hear, have been formed to work the mines* 
Crutta Percha- 
Dr. d’AlmeiDA has sent us the following memorandum with 
reference to the mention made of him in connection with this pro¬ 
duct, antCy p. 22. 
Dr. d’AImeida left Singapore for Calcutta in the latter end of 
November 1812,—arrived at Calcutta in the end of December of 
the same year,—left Calcutta in the middle of January 1843 by 
the Steamer u HindoostarC\ and arrived at Southampton about 
the end of March. A few days before leaving Singapore he 
bought from the natives some whips made of the Gutta Percha, 
* 
some of the prepared substance, and some of it in its primitive 
state; this specimen being presented for the first time for sale at 
Singapore. During Dr. d’Almeida’s passage to England, he gave 
a piece of this specimen to Mr. Charles Carnie, then a passen¬ 
ger in the same Steamer, who, although a resident of Singapore, 
was unacquainted with this product. In London Dr. d’A. gave 
a portion of the specimens to Mr. W. C. Crane to be analyzed; and, 
about the end of April 1843, presented the remainder to the 
Royal Asiatic Society. A letter of acknowledgment from the Se¬ 
cretary was transmitted to Dr. d’AImeida, which he received at 
Southampton in the beginning of May of the above year on his 
return from Paris. The same substance was shown in London to 
Mr. A. A, Laekersteen before it was delivered to the Royal Asi- 
tic Society. 
Specimens of Coal from Batman, Pulo Chirmin, 
Borneo, and Formosa, 
We are indebted to fire Ilonble T. Church, Esq., Resident 
Councillor at Singapore, for some specimens of coal frem the above 
localities procured from T. W. Rimell, Esq. Asst. Surgeon, II. M. 
S. Royalist. As we shall shortly have to recur to the subject, in tak¬ 
ing a general view of the coal of the Archipelago,we here merely note 
some of the appearances presented on a first partial examination. 
1. A specimen from the N. E. point of Labuan, where the 
beds dip at an angle of about 25° to the N. E, and have con¬ 
sequently the general range of the Southern Asiatic Peninsulas NW„- 
