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IT will be perhaps of some interest to the readers of NATURE to hear that Mr. Riedel, the Dutch resident on Timor (Timor Kupang), who formerly lived on Celebes, and collected a great deal on this island for European museums, and who is known by his various writings on different scientific questions concerning the East, has just returned from a twenty-five days' journey through Central Timor from 123° 30′—125° E.L., as he wrote to me in a letter dated October 6. No European has made such a journey through Timor before, and it has been very troublesome. But the country is, Mr. Riedel remarks, a splendid one, and very suitable for coffee and cinchona cultivation. The traveller did not see any Negritos, who, according to the assertion of M. Hamy, live in the interior of Timor, nor did he hear anything of a Casuary which was reported from there recently. Mr. Riedel collected many geographical notes, and sketched a map of the parts which he visited. A small collection of plants was forwarded to me by Mr. Riedel, and I have sent them to Kew, as Prof. Oliver formerly had the kindness to determine several botanical collections of Mr. Riedel's from Celebes.
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MEYER, A. Exploration of Timor . Nature 21, 108 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/021108d0
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