PRESIDENT S ADDRESS. » 



Conchology was always a favoui'ite subject. For some years 

 he contributed papers on Tasmanian shells to the Quarterly 

 Journal of Conchology. The Royal Society of Tasmania pub- 

 lished a further series, lie produced in 1879, "A Monograph 

 of the Land Shells of Tasmania." Thirty years afterwards, 

 in collaboration with myself, the subject was brought up-to- 

 date in "A revised Census of the Terrestrial MoUusca of Tas- 

 mania." He also joined me, in 1905, in a deep-sea dredging 

 excursion off Sydney. This was the first occasion on which 

 any local workers had explored beyond the continental shelf 

 in Australasia. 



The conduct of large business enterprises and the pursuit 

 of scientific studies still left Mr. Petterd time and enthusiasm 

 lor horticulture and philately. A seizure of the heart ended 

 his strenuous life m his fifty-seventh year. 



His old comrade in Papuan exploration did not long sur- 

 vive him. Kendall Broadbent died in Brisbane on January 

 15tli, 1911, aged seventy-three. For about thirty years he 

 had served the Queensland Museum as collector and taxi- 

 dermist. 



Another link with the past snapped at the death of Mrs. 

 Helena Forde on the 24th November, 191U, at Parramatta, 

 at the advanced age of nearly four score. Alexander Walker 

 Scott was a member of an influential family in early colonial 

 times. He resided on his estate of Ash Island on the 

 Hunter River ; and occupied himself in the pursuit of natural 

 history. His two daughters, Harriet and Helena, whose 

 married names in after life were Mrs. C. AV. Morgan and 

 Mrs Edward Forde respectively, grew up to share these 

 intellectual pleasures. Their artistic talent found exercise in 

 the careful delineation of the butterflies and moths, native 

 to their home, in various stages of development. The draw- 

 ings and descriptions thus prepared by the family attained 

 publication under the title of "Australian Lepidoptera and 

 their Transformations, drawn from life bv Harriet and Helena 

 Scott, with descriptions general and systematic by A. W 





