OBITUARY. 



Mr. Arthur W. S. Sullivan. 



Since the date of the last report the Society has had to 

 lament the of Mr. Arthur W. S. O'Sullivan, a member of our 

 Council for several years, and at one time Secretary.' 



Mr. O'Sullivan was born in 1860 and after a distinguished 

 career at Trinity College, Dublin (scholar and gold medallist), 

 he entered the Straits Settlements Civil Service in 1883. 



Throughout his service of twenty years in this Colony he 

 was distinguished as an able hard-working officer and showed a 

 marked talent for languages — he was proficient in Dutch, 

 Tamil, Malay, and more than one dialect of Chinese, which is a 

 record rare amongst Europeans in this climate. He had held 

 the post of Assistant Colonial Secretary for five years and had 

 just been selected by the Colonial Office for the post of Colonial 

 Secretary at Trinidad when he was struck down after a brief 

 illness. Although he was not a frequent contributor to the 

 Journal, the Society has lost in him an intellectual force — a man 

 who took a keen interest in scholarship of every kind. For 

 three years before his death he was engaged in intervals of 

 leisure in the translation of Dr. Snouck Hurgroyjne's Acheen — a 

 valuable and interesting piece of work which will shortly be 

 published at Leiden in Holland. 



In endeavoring to open up the wide field of Dutch learning 

 and experience in Netherlands India to English readers, he has 

 set an example for which the Society may well be grateful. 



B. JV. Bland. 



