10 president's address. 



Scott, M.A." The first three parts were issued iu 1864. Mr. 

 Scott's death occurred in 1883, after which the unpublished 

 drawings, manuscript and unissued copies were transferred 

 to the Trustees of the Australian Museum. After a long 

 interval, four additional parts were issued by that Institu- 

 tion, from 1890-93. In recognition of their achievements 

 the sisters were elected honorary members of our predecessor, 

 the Entomological Society of New South Wales, in 1864. To 

 these artist-naturalists we owe most of the figures in the 

 scientific literature of the period, produced in Sydney. Thus 

 they undertook the illustration of Dr. Cox's "Monograph of 

 Australian Land Shells" in 1868. Continuing, these ladies 

 prepared both drawings and lithographs for Krefft's 

 "Snakes of Australia" in 1869. Two years afterwards the 

 same author brought out his ■■Mammals of Australia, Illu- 

 strated by Miss Harriet Scott and Mrs. H. Forde, for the 

 Council of Education, with a short account of all the species 

 hitherto described, by Gerard Krefft." 



In 1865, the husband of the younger sister, Mr Edward 

 Forde, was appointed to the charge of a party despatched by 

 the Government to survey the Lower Darling. Mrs. Forde, 

 who accompanied him, took advantage of the life in camp to 

 observe, collect and paint the plants new to her. The expedi- 

 tion had a tragic end, both the Fordes were seized with 

 typhoid fever, from which the husband failed to recover. On 

 her return to Sydney the widow placed her collections in the 

 hands of Dr. Wools, who utilised the material in his "Plants 

 of the Darling" (1867). Mrs. Forde's elder sister, who 

 married a medical practitioner, predeceased her in 1907. 



Mr. J. H. Maiden has kindly assisted me with a few notes 

 on our late fellow-member, Mr. William Forsyth, who was 

 born near Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland, 5th October, 1864 ; and 

 came of good farming stock. He passed away suddenly on 

 the 14th September last. He had been Overseer of the Cen- 

 tennial Park for the last nineteen years, and the fine state 

 of the Park, as we see it to-day, is largely owing to his 



