624 president's address. 



Of the Ordinary Members, two — Dr. Paul Howard MacGillivray 

 and Mr. J. Bracebridge Wilson — were resident in Victoria. They 

 have strong claims to be held in grateful remembrance by 

 Australian naturalists Dr. MacGillivray belonged to a family of 

 naturalists. His father was Professor of Natural History at 

 King's College, Aberdeen, and his brother, the late John 

 MacGillivray, was author of the " Voyage of the Rattlesnake." 

 Since 1857 Dr. MacGillivray had followed the practice of his 

 profession in Victoria, at the same time showing himself a public- 

 spirited citizen much interested in the spread of knowledge and 

 culture. Much of his leisure for many years was devoted to the 

 study of Australian Polyzoa, and he was the author of an 

 important series of papers thereon, contributed to the Proceedings 

 and Transactions of the Royal Society of Victoria, or to Professor 

 McCoy's Decades. These date from the year 1859. His important 

 " Monograph on the Tertiary Polyzoa of Victoria " was passing 

 through the press at the time of his death, and has since been 

 published. 



Mr. J. Bracebridge Wilson, M. A., F.L.S., who died on October 

 22, aged 67, was for many years Head Master of the Church of 

 England Grammar School, Geelong. Like Dr. MacGillivray, he was 

 a busy professional man, whose leisure was given up to Natural 

 Science, out of pure love for it. In utiUsing his yacht in dredging 

 and trawling he found his hobby. This was done in a scientific 

 systematic way, with the object of accumulating stores of well- 

 preserved material for the elucidation of the marine fauna of 

 Port Phillip by specialists, he himself sharing in this part of the 

 work as far as opportunity served. 



Nearer home we have lost, at the early age of 30, one of 

 the younger school of naturalists — Arthur Sidney Olliff, who 

 died December 29 th last. Mr. Olliff came to New South 

 Wales in February, 1885, to -take up the work of Assistant 

 Zoologist, in the Division of Entomology, at the Australian 

 Museum, where he remained until his appointment as Entomologist 

 to the Department of Agriculture, Sydney in 1890. He had 

 been for some time in enfeebled health, and shortly before his 



