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TREPACE.
Mr. Marsdeiij my book certainly never would have been written,
or even attempted.
Next to Mr. Marsden, I am indebted to my friend Professor
Horace Haymau Wilson, of Oxford, for it is to his unrivalled
oriental learning, that I owe the Sanskrit etymologies of the
dictionary, and whatever may be found of value, connected
with the great recondite language of India, in the preliminaiy
Dissertation.
During the progress of my work, I have had the good fortune
to enjoy the correspondence of my friend J. Robert Logan, of
Singapore, the editor of the Journal of the Indian Archipelago,
a work abounding in original and authentic communications.
Our present rapid intercourse with India has enabled me, when
at a loss, to refer to Mr. Logan ;
and I have received from him
elucidations of grammar, and additional words, accompanied
by definitions.
In passing the sheets of ray book through the press, I have
been assisted by the supervision and correctioiis of an acute
orientalist, who has made the Malayan and Polynesian language
an object of special study, my friend Captain Thomas Bramber
Gascoign.
In the nomenclature of plants, my own imperfect knowledge
has been more than compensated by the science of
my friends Robert Brown, George Bentham, and Nathaniel
Wallich. In the department of zoology, ray chief obligations
are to a highly esteemed friend, whose acquaintance I liad the
happiness first to make in Java, more than forty years ago,
Dr. Thomas Horsficld, one whose knowledge of every branch
of the natural history of the Archipelago is well known to the
public.