N MEMORI AM. 



William Thomas Locke Travers, F.L.S. (1819-1903), was bom 



at Castleview, near Newcastle, in County Limerick, on the 9th January, 

 1819, and was educated at St. Servan College in France. When seven- 

 teen years old he joined the Spanish Legion during the Carlist war, 

 and served with distinction in the 2nd Eegiment of Lancers till 1839. 

 During part of the time he was aide-de-camp to the general of his 

 division, and for his services was decorated with the Grand Cross of the 

 Order of Cambodia. In 1844 he was called to the bar in London, and 

 in 1849 emigrated to Nelson, and became District Court Judge there. 

 Having resigned that office, he was, in 1854, elected member of the 

 House of Kepresentatives for Nelson in the first Parliament of New 

 Zealand, and for a time held office as Attorney-General. In 1856 he was 

 elected to represent Waimea. In 1860 he moved to Christchurch, where 

 he practised his profession, and was elected M.H.R. for that city. He 

 was also a member of the Canterbury Provincial Council and of the 

 Provincial Executive. In 1869 he settled in Wellington, and represented 

 that city in Parliament for several years. He was one of the chief 

 promoters of the New Zealand Institute in 1867, was a member of the 

 Board of Governors from that time, and for many years was honorary 

 treasurer. The formation of the Colonial Botanic Garden at Wellington 

 was largely due to his skill and enthusiasm ; and he took a leading part 

 in the promotion of acclimatisation societies, and of many other useful 

 institutions. He was a member of the Council of the Wellington Philo- 

 sophical Society for thirty-two years, was five times elected president, 

 and was the retiring president when he met with the accident which 

 caused his death on the 26th April, 1903. 



List of the principal papers communicated to the Wellington Philo- 

 sophical Society by W. T. L. Travers : — 

 Address, Wellington, IV., 356; X., 519, 539; XXIX., 111. 

 Birds, Habits of, IV., 206. 

 Botany, Comparisons in, between Canterbury, Nelson, and Marlborough, 



I., Pt. 3, 17; 2nd ed., 174. 

 Cassinia leptophyLla, VI., 248. 

 Cause of the Warmer Climate which existed in High Northern Latitudes 



during Former Geological Periods, X., 459, 470. 

 Civilisation, Effects of, on New Country, II., 299; III., 326. 

 Chatham Islands, IV., 63. 



Chatham Islands, Avifauna and Flora, V., 212. 



Distribution of the Organic Productions of New Zealand, XVI., 461. 

 Distribution, within the New Zealand Zoological Sub-region, of the 



Birds of the Orders Accipitres, Passeres, Scansores, Columbae, 



Gallinae, Struthiones, and Grallse, XV., 178. 

 Earthquakes and Volcanoes, Notes in reference to the Primary Causes 



of the Phenomena of, XIX., 331. 



