No. 58. — 1907.] JOAN GIDEOX LOTEN, f.r.s. 



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Animated with much love and sympathy for nature, 

 especially the animal world, Loten made several excursions 

 in the neighbourhood of Batavia, such as to Tandjong-Priok, 

 Tanahbang, the island of Onrust, &c. 



He did not, however, remain long in Batavia. On 10th 

 July 1733, — Prof. Veth writes 1732, which, however, cannot 

 be correct, — being already appointed fiscal of Java's north- 

 east coast, and having on 24th August of that year 

 married Anna Henrietta van Beaumont,* he left on 10th 

 September with his wife per ship H Huis de Vlotter for 

 Samarang, where he arrived on 29th September — thus after a 

 19-days' voyage. 



He continued with his business duties to study natural 

 history, and made inter alia an excursion inland from 

 6th to 10th November 1740, and appears to have then 

 taken an interest also in the architectural antiquities of Java.| 



Re-appointed to Batavia in 1741, he returned thither per 

 ship Zorgwijk, and remained there this time until the beginning 

 of 1744, when, being nominated as Governor of Macassar, he 

 embarked thither with his wife and a little daughter on 2nd 

 March on board the ship Adrighem, to arrive at the place men- 

 tioned on 24th March. On the " Journael in 't edele Com- 

 pagnieschip Adrighem van Batavia na Makasser," kept by 

 the skipper Herbert Sam, and read by Prof. Veth, Loten made 

 some notes, and says therein with regard to the said 4 ' Capteyn 

 Herbert Sam " that he was " I understand from Dordrecht, 

 of a good family, but a dissolute and not very polished 

 man." 



Advanced to Councillor Extraordinary of India, J Loten in 

 1750 § handed over the government of Macassar to his successor, 

 Rosenboom, at the same time leaving Mm a memoir (printed 

 in the works of the Utrecht Society) comprising a detailed 



* Regarding whom see infra. 



f It was during his residence at Samarang that Loten's three children 

 were born, only one of whom survived (see under Section II.). 



% In December 1747 (see Hooykaas, Eepertorium op de Koloniale 

 Litteratuur ii. (1880) 104). 



§ On 17th October 1750, according to Robide van der Aa in the 

 paper cited infra. 



