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"Peninsula."

As I said in the speech

with which I opened the proceedings,

I had krown W: Forrison-Woods for twenty years successively of Qecmeland, New --m

white I was Governors

Zaland,

and Victoria, as an eminent

-acologist and Mineralogist, and as

author

the au

one

of m

best books

of the best.

the cxploration of Australia. He has. latily explored the ssining district of the Malay Seminula, under the auspices of the Governor, Sir Frederick

Hold . His lecture / of which a report (is enclosed,) was

very

well received, Enclosure

And

and (as I observed) was of practical

aud

· financial as well as

interest to

as of scientific

many persons in this ommunity who have advanced funds

for the working of the Mines in the Malay

Peninsula.

I have the honour to be,

My Lord,

Your Lordship's Most Obedinct,

Humble Servant,

5 Momen