The mission to Siam, and Hué the capital of Cochin China in the years 1821-2. From the journal of the late George Finlayson ... With a memoir of the author by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, F.R.S / [George Finlayson].

  • George Finlayson
Date:
1826
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Credit: The mission to Siam, and Hué the capital of Cochin China in the years 1821-2. From the journal of the late George Finlayson ... With a memoir of the author by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, F.R.S / [George Finlayson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    private journal of the late Mr. George Finlay- son, who was attached to the Mission as Sur- geon and naturalist, but who, unfortunately for his friends and the cause of science, fell a sa- crifice to his unwearied exertions in the per- formance of the service intrusted to him, and did not live to revise and arrange them himself, having died on his passage to England. The Journal in its unfinished and rough state, with the whole of the valuable collections in na- tural history made by Mr. Finlayson during the course of the Mission, having been deposited in the museum of the East India company, and by the liberal arrangements of the court of directors, laid open to the inspection of those who were interested in the subject, it is now published, with the permission of Dr. Somer- ville, and in the simplest form practicable, it being considered that such a work can have no better recommendation than the certainty of its genuineness and authenticity. It does not profess to afford any account of the official proceedings or conduct of the Mis- sion, further than met the author’s observation as a spectator in common with others who were present on the occasion ; its object is to throw light on the country, and on the character, insti- tutions, and habits of the people generally. It would have been easy to have enlarged the
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