XX IN MEM.ORIAM..— Continued, 



of dysentery contracted on that expedition Mr. O'Brien never 

 really recovered his health. After a severe illness he v^^as in- 

 valided home, and his name first appears among-st the list of 

 members of the Society in the December number of the Journal 

 for 1878. 



In the June number of the Journal for 1883 he published a 

 most valuable paper on the obscure nervous disease of Latah, 

 which is universally admitted to be an excellent attempt to 

 elucidate one of the most interesting- mental anomalies in the 

 Malay character. 



In No. 14 of the Journal Mr. O'Brien pubhshed some in- 

 teresting- notes on the History of the Constitution of Jelebu, accom- 

 panied by a sketch survey of the Sung-ei Triang- which was pub- 

 lished with Journal No. 15. At this period Mr. O'BRIEN was 

 acting- as Resident of Sungei Ujong- and while so acting the 

 agreement was concluded with Sir. F. A. Weld under which 

 Jelebu was administered under the advice of the Resident in the 

 same w^ay as Sungei Ujong. 



A fall from an elephant, which bolted in the juugle with 

 him, in Jelebu. led to a series of complications which terminated 

 in an attack of abscess of the liver. From that time Mr. O'BRIEN 

 ^vas no longer capable of much physical exertion and though he 

 took a keen interest in everything connected with the Society 

 he was no longer able to contribute in the way he would have 

 w^ished, namely by personal observation and exploration of the 

 Peninsula. 



While acting as Col. Treasurer in 1891 some old documents 

 Jiad to be destroyed to make room for new ones and while 

 investigating the blurred and moth-eaten records of 50 years 

 before he came across the interesting minutes of Sir Stamford 

 Raffles, which was published in No. 24 of the Journal. This was 

 his last contribution to the Journal. 



The Hon'ble MARTIN Lister, whose death tookplacein Egypt 

 on his way home, in the spring, was also a well-known contributor. 

 He took a deep in terest in the Negri Sembilan States and what 

 Mr. O'Brien did for Jelebu and Sungei Ujong and Mr. Hervey 

 for Rembau, Mr. Lister did for the Sri Menanti and Johol group, 

 with which he was for a long time intimately connected. His 



