Cornelis ("Kees") Zwaan was a well-known solar physicist at Utrecht University in The Netherlands. Together with his graduate students he also ventured out to other cool stars, concentrating on their magnetic activity. He has been a member of the AAS and the Solar Physics Division and had close ties with many American astro-physicists. He died from cancer in his house at Doorn, The Netherlands on June 16, 1999. He had had major surgery in 1998, but recovered so fast that we and his other friends expected to have him with us much longer. The end came far too soon.

Professor Jan Gonda died in Utrecht on 28 July 1991 at the age of eighty-six. He was one of the world's foremost scholars in both Old Indian and Indonesian studies. His successor to the Utrecht chair of Sanskrit, Dr. Henk Bodewitz, in the Indo-lranian Joumal (34, 1991, pp. 28 1-286) as well as in the Yearbook of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Jaarboek 1991, forthcoming), has especially commemorated him as a scholar in the Indian field. This In Memoriam wil1 be devoted mainly, though not exclusively, to Gonda as a scholar in the field of Indonesian languages and literature.