IN MEMORIAM. 



Reinhold Ernst Rost. 



The Council of tbe Straits Asiatic Society received with 

 great regret the news of the death of Dr. Reinhold Rost, CLE., 

 which occurred at Canterbury, on February 7th, 189G. 



Dr. Rosi\ who was born at Eisenberg on February 2nd, 

 1822, was Librarian to the Lidia Office from 18G9 till 189 J^, and 

 was well known as a distinguished orientalist and Malay scholar. 



He edited for the Society the two series of Miscellaneous 

 Papers relating to Indo-China and the Lidian Archipelago, which 

 were published in 1886 and 1887, and in recognition of these 

 and other services he was elected an Honorary Member on 

 March 3rd, 1887. 



Dr. Rost took the deepest interest in the work of the 

 Society and many members who knew him personally are 

 indebted to him for his valuable assistance, aLvays given readily 

 to all who were engaged in any of the various branches of 

 research in which he himself took such a profound interest. 



The Society has sustahied a severe loss by the unexpected 

 deaths, this year, of two valuable members — the Hon'ble H. 

 A. 0'BuiEN,'and the Hon'ble Martin Lister. 



Both gentlemen from time to time wrote papers for the 

 Journal and contributed in no small degree to the information that 

 has of recent years been obtained about the Malay Peninsula. 



Before the Society was founded in the year 1875 Mr. 

 O'Brien accompanied the late Mr. DALY on an expedition across 

 the Malay Peninsula, via the Muar and Pahang rivers. The results 

 of their joint expedition were recorded in the first Map of the 

 Peninsula which was published by the Society in 1879. At that 

 time the interior of the Peninsula was a terra incognita and 

 the expedition Avas the first attempt to explore the interior and 

 involved no small amount of danger and hardship. From an attack 



