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were beginning to Jieave and vend, was chosen for the inaugura- 

 tion of a Greater Britain at the Antipodes. Such boldness of 

 conception, such defiance of illfortune, such stubborn perseverance 

 have justly eainied the prosperity which we now celebrate. 



This Society has lost during the last year seven members 

 removed in the course of nature, whose names I here record. 



Edwin Daintrey, who died last October, was a gentleman 

 of highly cultivated literary tastes, at one time Honorary Secretary 

 to the Atistralian Library in Bent-street. He was an excellent 

 Botanist, and took a lively interest in all branches of Natural 

 History. 



Dr. Markey, L.R.C.S.J., &,c., arrived in the Colony in 1865, 

 and practised successfully in Maitland, Casino, and Sydney, where 

 he was also Resident Surgeon of the Intirmaiy for more than two 

 years. 



Mr. W. J. Weston died June 4, 1887. 



Mr. F. Tenison- Woods, who died June 1887, after being engaged 

 for many ^-ears in the Customs Department, Sydney, gave, until 

 his health broke down, valuable services to the Society and to the 

 cause of science in general. His position naturally supplied con- 

 stant opportunities for picking up the ' curios ' which are so often 

 lost or dispersed after their arrival in Sydney, and of these he made 

 good use. 



Mr. Patrick Hayes died December, 1887. 



The Hon. W. Busby, M.L.A., was a colonist of very long 

 experience. He assisted his father in his excavations for " Busby's 

 Bore," commenced in 1827, for the purpose of supplying water to 

 Sydney from the Botany Swamps, and was, strange as it sounds 

 to us, sent to Norfolk Island, at that time tlie inner jail of Botany 

 Bay, to prosecute his education under better teaching than could 

 then be obtained in Sydney. His reminiscences of old times were, 

 as may well be imagined, both curious and interesting. 



