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. & C.M.R.A.S. ... 146-149.
Visit to the coal district.— Kayu Kamuning coal, 146.— Pulo Tiga ib., 146-7.— Anthracitic coal, 147.— Tama coal, id.— 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 Gurbic or Temah coal and associated beds, ib. Professor Ansted's remarks on the first coal, 154.— Correspondence between 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 portions, passage of jet into crystals of silex, 162-4.— Iron pyrites, 164.— metamorphic process similar to that suffered by rocks of Cape Rachado &c, ib. Analogy to Singapore anthracite, 165.— Plutonic deterioration of the coal of the Peninsula, ib.— overlying iron masked layer, hydrated peroxide of iron resulting from the decomposition of pyrites, same in granites 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.
Materials presented by the Archipelago for ascertaining the elementary principles of ethnology, 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 minuteness and exactness of observation, 176.— importance of the ethnography 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 all nations, 180.— necessity of compiling vocabularies, 182.
XVII.
A few Remarks on Conchology and Malachology, comprising brief notices of some of the more remarkable " Testacca" in Singapore and its neighbourhood; with an appended catalogue of Singapore Shells arranged in conformity with Lammarck's System, by Wm. Traill, M. D. ... 225-241.
Prefatory remarks, 225-226.— Paucity of larger shells, 228.—
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