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Library, and other public institutions. After his death some 

 family papers were also presented to the national archives, 

 but the papers in question were — so Mr. Muller assured 

 me — with neither one nor the other, and Mr. Grothe's son, 

 Mr. Grothe van Schellach at Utrecht, did not know the docu- 

 ments. Even less has been the result of an inquiry, instituted 

 by me, of the late Prof. P. J. Veth's son, Dr. K. J. Veth, and 

 further by Mr. L. D. Petit, Conservator at the Academy 

 Library at Leiden, in which are some of the papers left by 

 Prof. Veth, and of Prof, de Goeije, who arranged the literary 

 remains of the said scholar, but had not met with the required 

 documents among them. 



Regarding Joan Gideon Lot en, on the other hand, I can, in 

 the way of supplement, now relate considerably more, thanks 

 to the help of Messrs. G. P. Rouffaer and P. A. M. Boele van 

 Hensbroek, as well as the gentlemen already named, Mr. S. 

 Muller, Fz., and especially Mr. Grothe van Schellach, who was 

 able to draw therefor from family papers. 



In the first place, I can by this means refer to the short 

 biography, to be found on page 651 of vol. xi. of A. J. van der 

 Aa's Biografisch Woordenboek (Haarlem, 1865), where, however, 

 Loten's services as Governor of Macassar * are alone extolled, 

 and in particular mention is made of a fine map in 19 sheets of 

 Celebes, which he caused to be prepared by his bookkeeper- 

 Jean Michel Aubert.f 



In the second place, one finds some details in the Bijdragen 

 van het Koninklijk Instituut van Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 

 van Ned -Indie 4th series, vol. v. (1881), from the hand of 

 P. J. B. C. Robide van der Aa, in his paper " The Great Bantam 

 Rising in the Middle of Last Century," where the important 

 role filled in 1752 by Loten, at that time councillor extra- 

 ordinary, as commissary sent to the Bantam court, is 

 described, and a report from his hand printed ; whilst in an 

 appendix (pp. 49-53) the writer relates one thing and another 

 further regarding Loten's career. 



* 1741-50 (see supra). 



f This map is mentioned by Robide van der Aa (u. i.), who says that 

 it is in the Bodel-Nyenhuis collection. 



