Fasciculi Malayenses

Abstract

OF late years, mainly owing to the labours of Captain Stanley Flower and to the collections made by the Skeat Expedition (of which, by the way, Mr. Annandale was a member), very consìderable advances have been made in our knowledge of the vertebrate fauna of the Malay countries. So large, indeed, was the amount of new information thus acquired that it might have been supposed little more remained to be accomplished. If such an idea were ever seriously entertained, it is, however, at once disposed of by the work before us, which, as stated on the title-page, is. intended, when complete, to give a full account of the anthropological and zoological results of an expedition, to Perak and the Siamese Malay States undertaken during the years 1901 and 1902 by Messrs. Annandale and Robinson, under the auspices of the Universities of Edinburgh and Liverpool. That the wise liberality of these two bodies has been amply justified is fully demonstrated by the present parts, which form only a foretaste of what is to come.

Fasciculi Malayenses.

Results of an Expedition undertaken by N. Annandale H. C. Robinson. Zoology. Parts i., ii. and Supplement. By various authors. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1903.)