roO™ SHORT NOTES, 
suggestions about it, one of them being that it stands for 
Muar, which seems hardly probable. Perhaps local know- 
ledge may throw some new light upon it: the name may still 
exist in some modified form somewhere in the Peninsula. 
C. O. Blagden. 
_ Hermanus Neubronner Van Der Tuuk. 
‘The venerable Professor Kern in an interview which I 
had with him at Utrecht last spring informed me that it had 
recently been discovered that H. N. van der Tuuk, the founder 
of Malayan comparative philology, was born in Malacca. ~ His 
father was a high Dutch official and his mother a member of 
the ‘well-known Neubronner family of that ancient Dutch 
settlement. He was educated in Holland and devoted himself 
to the’study of the languages of Netherlands India. But in - 
virtue of his birth at Malacca we are entitled in some measure 
to claim him as one of-our local worthies and to share with 
our Dutch friends and neighbours in honouring the memory of 
one of most distinguished men born in the Malay Peninsula, 
C. O. Blagden. 
Descriptions of two Species of Dragon Flies 
(Odonata) from Sarawak. 
_By F. F. Laidlaw. 
Sub. family. - Chlorogomphinae. 
_ Genus. Orogomphus: 
Median labial lobe divided. Females without ovipositor. 
Eyes almost touching at a point on the top of the head. 
Triangle of hind-wing nearly equilateral. Abdomen longer 
than hind-wing 
Jour. Straits Branch 
