814 president's address. 



ing and appreciative sketch of Jeffery Parker's life and work, 

 written by his old friend, colleague and successor, Professor G. B. 

 Howes, F.R.S. It is so difficult for one possessed of less personal 

 knowledge to speak effectively on a subject of this kind after 

 a deliverance by one who has spoken with full personal knowledge, 

 that it were wise not to attempt to supplement what Professor 

 Howes has so admirably and so sympathetically given us. I may 

 content myself, therefore, with commending to your perusal the 

 article to which I have referred. 



It is fitting, also, that some reference should be made to two 

 other well-known members of the community who passed away in 

 July last, within a few days of each other and of Mr. Walker. 

 Sir Patrick Jennings, K.C.M.G., who died on July 11th, aged 66 

 years, was an Original Member of the Society who maintained 

 his membership until quite recently. He was well known by his 

 lengthy political career, by his association with the cause of 

 hisher education as a member of the Senate of the University, 

 and by his great interest in art and music, and in public affairs 

 generally. 



The Venerable Archdeacon R. L. King, B.A., Cantab., who 

 died on July 24th, 1897, aged 74, though never a Member of this 

 Society, actively co-operated with Sir William Macleay in carry- 

 ino- on the work of the Entomological Society of New South Wales, 

 to which he contributed a number of papers, and of which for two 

 years he was President. Mr. King was the eldest son of the late 

 Admiral King, so well known in the annals of Australian 

 maritime exploration. During his residence in Parramatta 

 as Incumbent of St. John's Church, and for some little time 

 after his removal to Liverpool as Principal of the Moore 

 Theological College, Mr. King took up the study of natural 

 history as a hobby, and for a busy man he succeeded in 

 accomplishing a surprising amount of entomological and other 

 zoological work, until the pressure of official duties and want of 

 leisure obhged him to give it up altogether. With the exception 

 of several papers on Entomostraca contributed to the Royal 

 Society of Tasmania, and published in the Papers and Proceedings 



