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 principal contribution was his paper on the Negri Sembilan in Journal No. 19, which he further expanded in his paper on "Malay-Law in Negri Sembilan," in Journal No. 22.

Both Mr. O'BRIEN and Mr. LISTER possessed to a prominent degree that sympathetic manner which renders Europeans popular with Malays, and their loss is equally mourned by Europeans and Natives.

H. T. H.

We regret to have to record the death of Mr. Hn. VAUGHAN STEVENS, an ethnological collector in the Malay Peninsula, well known to Members of the Society. He spent many years in investigating the ethnology of the Sakais, visiting all parts of Malay Peninsula. His collections were chiefly sent to the museums of Berlin and St. Petersburg and accounts of them were published in the "Veroffentlichungen aus dem Königlichen Museum fur Völkerkunde" (Berlin), the "Zeitschrift fur Ethcologie, and Archiv der Pharmacie." (1893).

Many members will remember a very interesting exhibition of his Pahang collections, held at the Raffles Library, in June 1890, under the auspices of the President and Council of the Society. His illness, due to the hardships he had undergone in his explorations was of some months' duration, and he expired at Kuching, Sarawak, on April 29th, at the age of sixty-two.

H. N. R.