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business life in August, 1901, he performed very efficiently the 

 duties of Hon. Treasurer, in succession to the Hon. Dr. Norton. 

 During this period Sir William Macleay's scheme for the endow- 

 ment of Bacteriological research was successfully put into work- 

 ing order; and as such matters as the appointment of a Bacteri- 

 ologist and the equipment and maintenance of a bacteriological 

 laboratory have a financial aspect, the enlargement of the 

 Society's sphere of operations at this time was not without 

 additional responsibility for the Hon. Treasurer. 



Mr. Trebeck was a most valuable Member of the Council, and 

 it is becoming that the Society's obligations to him should be 

 officially recognised. His experience and knowledge of finance 

 were freely placed at the Society's disposal at all times. And 

 now that the Society has such large pecuniary interests at stake, 

 the inclusion in the Council of a fair proportion of Members of the 

 type of Mr. Trebeck is a very necessary and important factor in 

 the successful management of the Society's financial affairs. 



Mr. Trebeck's attendance at the Meetings was exemplary; and 

 his interest in Science, as well as in the welfare of the Society, 

 was maintained to the last. He was present at the Council 

 Meeting in December, in his customary cheerful mood, and 

 without any unusual premonition of the heart-failure which a 

 few days later (on December 26th, 1904), and at short notice? 

 ended his long and honourable career. 



Few, if any, Australian families have had so lengthy and so 

 honourable a connection with the country as that of which Philip 

 Gidley King was a member. His grandfather, Captain P. G. 

 King, served under Captain Phillip, founded the Colon}^ of 

 Norfolk Island, and subsequently filled the important position of 

 Third Governor of New South Wales under very difficult con- 

 ditions but in a manner which must continue to demand the 

 cordial approval of posterity. 



His father, Rear-Admiral Philip Parker King, was born at 

 Norfolk Island in 1793, and entered the Navy in 1807. He is 

 well known as the officer entrusted with the important work of 



