Volume 1
Miscellaneous papers relating to Indo-China / reprinted for the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society from Dalrymple's "Oriental repertory," and the "Asiatic researches" and "Journal" of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.
- Date:
- 1886
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Miscellaneous papers relating to Indo-China / reprinted for the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society from Dalrymple's "Oriental repertory," and the "Asiatic researches" and "Journal" of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![EDITORIAL NOTE. The foregoing preface fully sets forth the purpose of, and my share in, the present publication. It behoves me now to state, in a few words, the principles by which I have been guided in carrying the work through the press. The Papers selected from each of the three serials have been given in chronological sequence. They have been reproduced without any alteration beyond the correction of obvious misprints, as in No. XXIV. A certain inconsistency in the spelling of names cannot but be expected in a miscellaneous collection such as this, which covers a period of literary work extending over upwards of fifty years. It is hoped, however, that in doubtful cases a refer- ence to Indices I. and II. may prove of service. Footnotes and references to such works as were available have been added [in square brackets.] They are necessarily brief, as the space at the editor’s disposal was limited. For this reason, J. Crawfurd’s “ Descriptive Dictionary of the Indian Islands and Adjacent Countries ” (1856), which would have had to be quoted almost at every step, and its complement and companion—for Crawfurd does not appear to have drawn from Dutch sources of information—P. J. Veth’s “ Aardrijkskundig en statistisch woord- enboek van Nederlandsch Indie” (3 vols. 1861-69), have not been specially mentioned. But for that limitation, too, Dr. Ley- den’s famous paper (left unnoticed by his biographer in the b](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29352496_0001_0029.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
