624 presidext's address. 



"Mr. Darwio would also be very much obligetl if you could send him a few 

 specimens of the latter." 



"I hope you will e.xc-use the trouble I am giving you, and believe me, dear 

 Sir Charles, Yours very truly, John Lubbock." 



W. S. Maeleay, doubtless, did his best to answer these questions. He could 

 possibly have answered tiie first one. and could have supplied specimens of native 

 bees. But the second one was probably unanswerable, for lack of information. 

 Hive bees arc said to have been introduced at Sydney, about 1S22, and at Hathurst 

 in 1839 and 1842, as mentioned in Henniker Heaton's "Australian Dictionary of 

 Dates" (p. 39). I commend both Lubbock's questions to the notice of Members, 

 as worthy of modern investigation . 



Sir Charles Nicholson was a Trustee of the Australian Museum for some 

 years. Both he and \V. S. Maeleay, together with J. H. Plunkett. as Chair- 

 man, were the C'ommissionei's of National Education in Sydney, in 1848. There 

 is, among the relics of W. S. Maeleay, his copy of the "Begulations and Direc- 

 tions to be attended to in making application to the Commissioners of National 

 Education, for and towards the building of School Houses or for the support of 

 Schools." These signed by the three Commi.ssioners, as above, were issued, with 

 a preface, dated i\Iay 10th, 1848, by the Colonial Secretary, E. Deas Thomson. 



Alexander Walter Scott (1800-83), and his accomplished daughters, Harriet 

 (Mrs. Cosby W. Morgan) and Helena (Mrs. Edward Forde), lived for a number 

 of years at Ash Island, Hunter River, but removed to Sydney about 1862. They 

 were the authors of that most meritorious work "Australian Tjcpidoptera and their 

 Transformations, drawn from the Life by Harriet and Helena Scott, with De- 

 scriptions, General and Systematic, by A. W. Scott, M.A., Ash Island, Hunter 

 River, New South Wales." of which Vol. i., comprising Parts i.-iii., was pub- 

 lished in London in 1864. Vol. ii., Parts i.-iv.. with an amended title, was pub- 

 lished in Sydney, in 1890-93, by the Trustees of the Australian Museum, who 

 had purchased the unpublished matter, after the death of Mr. Scott in 1883. The 

 second and last volume was edited and re\'ised by Arthur Sidney OUiff and 

 Helena Forde. 



The Seotts were friends and correspondents of W. S. Maeleay. and there 

 are several acknowledgments of advice and help, in regard to literature, to him 

 in the first volume. He was gi-eatly interested in their work, not only for its 

 intrinsic merit, but because they were continuing from a more modern standpoint 

 the investigations begun by J. W. Lewin, in his "Lepidopterous Insects of New 

 South Wales" (1805), and also because they were illustrating the life-histories 

 of some of the Lepidoptera described by him, in 1827. from Captain P. P. King's 

 Australian collection . 



The only original, unpublislied letter written by W. S. Maeleay. that I have 

 seen, is one to Miss Scott, dated .July 23rd, 1861 . For this. I am indebted to 

 the thought fulness and kindness of the late Mrs. M. A. .7. Shaw, cousin and 

 residuary legatee of the late Mrs. Forde. The purport of this letter, of four 

 closely written pages, is explained by the concluding words, "T have now told you 

 pretty well all T know about Charagia." 



Up to this time, four species of the genus h.ad been described and re-described 

 by Lewin and various European entomologists, but the synon^Tiiy was involved 

 and complicated. Miss Scott had obtained a firth species, which she thought wa-s 



