MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES, CONTRIBUTIONS AND 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
As circumstances have prevented our availing ourselves so soon as 
we desired of several notes and memoranda which we have received 
from J. B. Westerhout Esq. Assistant Resident at Malacca, we 
cannot longer defer acknowledging his kindness, which was enhanced 
by his leaving it to our discretion either to insert them separately, 
or embody the information they contain in an account which we are 
preparing of Johore, including Malacca and Singapore. If we find 
it necessaiy to postpone this account we shall publish some of Mr. 
Westerliout’s notes in an early number. 
Dr. Bleeker, Secretary of the Batavian Society of Arts and 
Sciences &c., has favoured us with several papers containing his lat¬ 
est contributions to the zoology of Java, for which we return our 
best thanks. 
Our acknowledgments are also due to the Editors of the Calcutta 
Review, Journal of the Agricultural Society of India, and Tijdschrift 
voor Neerlands Indie, for the last numbers of these works. 
TIIE JAVA EARTHQUAKE OF THE 16tll. NOVEMBER 1847 FELT IN 
SUMATRA. 
From the Javasche Courant of the 22nd. ult. we learn that the 
Earthquake of the 16th November extended to the southern part of 
Sumatra. At Natar in the Lampongs, on the same day about 38’ 
past lCfo’clock a heavy shock was felt. 10 minutes later a more se¬ 
vere undulating motion was experienced, followed at intervals of 4 to 
5 minutes by two very severe shocks, all in a direction from S. E. to 
N. W. In the morning a strong wind blew, but duning the Earth¬ 
quake it was perfectly calm The thermometer which at 9 o'clock 
stood at 79 p F. rose to 85° Natar lies at the foot of Gunong RjSte, 
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