IQ prksident's address. 



Council decided upon this occasion to make one appointment 

 only. I have very much pleasure in taking the earliest oppor 

 tunity of publicly announcing; to the Society the name of the 

 successful applicant and the first Linnean Macleay Fellow — that 

 of Mr. Harold Ingemann Jensen, B.Sc; and of giving 3-ou some 

 particulars of his qualifications for the position. 



Mr. Jensen is a native of Aarhuus, Jutland, Denmark. He 

 was seven years of age when his family came to Australia, and 

 settled at Caboolture in Queensland. He was educated at the 

 State School, Caboolture, under Mr. P. Z. McGurk, and from 

 that school won a scholarship to the Brisbane Grammar School, 

 where the remainder of his school education was gained under 

 Mr. R. H. Roe. After passing the Sydney University Senior 

 Examination he was appointed Meteorological Assistant at the 

 Kosciusko Observatory, and spent the winter of 1898 at the 

 summit of the mountain. In 1899 he commenced the Science 

 Course at the Sydney University, and distinguished himself at 

 the first year examinations. He was unable to continue his 

 University studies for the following two years, but resumed them 

 in 1902. At the end of that year he obtained first-class honours 

 in Biology, Chemistry and Geology, and won the Caird Scholar- 

 ship for Chemistry and the Deas-Thomson Scholarship for Geology. 

 In his third year course in 1903 he graduated with first-class 

 honours in the subject specially selected for his degree — Geology 

 including Palaeontology, and also gained second-class honours in 

 the additional subjects of Chemistry and Mineralogy. In 1904 

 he was appointed Junior Demonstrator in Chemistry and Geology, 

 in which capacity he was acting at the time of his election to a 

 Macleay Fellowship. 



In spite of the arduous nature of his University studies, iVIr. 

 Jensen found time for a considerable amount of scientific research. 

 In June, 1902, he contributed a paper on the " Possible Relation 

 between Sunspot Minima and other Volcanic Eruptions " to the 

 Royal Society of New South Wales.* His opinions aroused 



Journ. Proc. Roy. Soc. N. S. Wales, xxxvi. 42. 



