Obituary. 
The Society much regrets to have to record the death of one 
- of their most valued and promiment members, the Hon’ble Warren 
D. Barnes, Colonial Secretary of Hongkong, which took place in 
Hongkong on October 28th of this year (1911). 
Mr. Barnes, born in 1865, was educated at King’s College 
School and Pembroke College Cambridge. He joined the S. S. 
Government service in 1888, held various appointments, chiefly in 
connection with the Chinese Protectorates in this Colony and the 
F. M. S., became Secretary for Chinese Affairs for the S. 8. and 
F. M.S. in 1904, Resident of Pahang in 1910, and then left here 
early this year on his appointment as Colonial Secretary in 
Hongkong. 
Mr. Barnes was elected a member of the Society in 1893 
when he was still in Penang, and his chief activity in connection 
with it was during the years 1908 and 1909 when he was Vice- 
President for Singapore, and in 1910, as Vice-President for the 
F.M.S. It was due to his initiative and supervision that a 
Catalogue of the Society’s Library was compiled and printed in 
1909, and he also undertook the laborious task of compiling a most 
useful index volume to the Society’s Journal Nos. 1-50. 
His own contributions to former Nos. of the Journal are: 
A Trip to Gunong Benom, Pahang, No. XXXIX, pp. 1-10 
Schmidt’s Sakai and Semang Languages, No. XXXIX, 
pp. 38-45 
Kern’s Sanskrit Inscriptions, Malay Peninsula, No. XLIX, 
pp. 95-101. 
His three papers in the present Journal, viz. 
‘Singapore Old Straits and New Harbour’”’ 
“An Old Royal Cemetery at Pekan in Pahang,” and 
“ An Old Tombstone in Pahang” 
were printed off some weeks before his death. 
R. HANITSCH, 
Actg. Hon. Secretary. 
