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the Royal Society of South Australia from 1881 until the 

 present 5^ear. Australian science has suflfered severe losses 

 during the last few years — Baron Von Mueller, a great friend 

 of Tate, and co-worker with him in several researches, pre- 

 deceased him by some four years, and still more recently our 

 own M 'Coy, the veteran geologist. 



Prof. Tate's scientific work in South Australia was highly 

 appreciated in that country. His funeral at Adelaide was 

 attended by a great concourse of the inhabitants, the Chancellor, 

 Vice-Chancellor, professors, and about seventy students of 

 the Universit}^ followed the hearse in academic robes. Sub- 

 sequently a meeting of students was held, and it was resolved 

 to take steps to perpetuate his memory by placing a mural 

 tablet on the walls of the new Geological Museum, and to 

 establish a Tate medal. 



Museum, Belfast. 



OBITUARY, 



WILLIAM WILLIAMS. 



With sincere regret we record the death of Mr. William Williams, for 

 many years the head of the well-known naturalist's business in Dame- 

 street, Dublin ; he passed away on December loth, at the age of 89 

 years. An earnest student of geology and general natural history in his 

 younger days, Mr. Williams made hi's reputation by a special study of 

 the extinct Great Deer or " Irish Elk," travelling widely over Ireland in 

 search of the remains of this animal, whereof he amassed a large collec- 

 tion. Skeletons mounted by him may now be found in many of the 

 European museums, as well as in Australia and America, while papers 

 embodying the results of his researches appeared in the Proc. R. Dublin 

 Soc, and the Geological Magazine^ i88i. Failing health during recent years 

 obliged Mr. Williams to leave the Dame-street establishment in the 

 hands of his sons. His lamented death severs a link between 

 the naturalists of a past generation. 



