with experiments upon Bornean fruits, vegetables, and
other natural products of the country. His latest
correspondence referred to the possibilities of obtaining
a grant from the Royal Society in connection with these
researches. Among his papers were several photographs
which I am inclined to think were not taken by himself,
and as there is no clue to their oriOg in,?; I have not
had them engraved. Seme of them may possibly have
been obtained at Jahore (which he visited during one
of his Singapore vacations) or at Sarawak. There
is one, however, which is an imperfect and evidently
hurried production. “ This,” says Mr. Alfred Dent,
“ is, I should say, one of Frank’s own. I t is a group
of native Dyak women, taken in the interior and near
a stockade. I t is a remarkable illustration, not only
as giving a real picture of the best class of Dyak
women-, but showing their mode of dress, or the
absence of it, and the fashion of wearing brass' wire
around the arms, legs, and neck. The photograph is
also proof of the confidence shown in the European
who made it, the Dyaks being exceedingly jealous of
their women.” Frank in his letters mentions several
photographs which have not reached England. The
most serious loss is of course his diaries. Hot one
of them came home among his effects, which were
ordered to be carefully collected and despatched to
England. A portion of the first, and the whole of the
last one, came home long after his clothes and other
property. “ His roving life,” as his friend Dr.
Walker writes, “ made the collecting .together of his
things a difficult business.” Every possible inquiry
and investigation into the matter has, I know, been
made by the Governor and Mr. Resident Fryer, whose