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Kinibalu in Borneo. To Mr. Botting Hemsley's " Report on 

 the Botany of the Challenger Expedition," Mr. Mitten also 

 contributed the portion dt'aling with the hepatics and mosses. 



Mr. Mitten has thus furnished us with a brilliant and inspiring 

 example of the useful and necessary amateur at his best, and of 

 the extraordinary amount of good work that can be successfully 

 accomplished during the frequently interrupted leisure of a long 

 lifetime by the patience and concentration of an enthusiast. I 

 may conclude my remarks upon this estimable man by a brief 

 quotation from a biographical sketch, contributed to the "Journal 

 of Botany" (for October, 1906) by Mr. Botting Hemsley, who 

 says of Mr. Mitten — "He had correspondents in all parts of the 

 world, from whom he received many things besides mosses, 

 including seeds for his garden, of which he was very fond. I 

 remember how keenly he examined his mosses and liverworts for 

 chance seeds of other plants, and how much pleasure he derived 

 from observing their germination and growth. In this way he 

 raised several things from remote islands visited by the ' Chal- 

 lenger' Expedition." 



The Hon. William Robert Campbell, M.L.C., a member of an 

 old Sydney family, who died on July 30, 1906, aged 68, joined 

 the Society in October, 1878. At this time he was the owner of 

 Trigamon Station, near Warialda; and becoming interested in 

 the occurrence of fishes in a dam unconnected with any water- 

 course, and which had been dry a few months previously, he 

 forwarded specimens to Sir William Macleay, who determined 

 them to be referable to a species of Therapon (T. uuicolor Gthr.), 

 and published a short account of them in the Society s Proceedings 

 (Vol. iii. p. 15). Upon rrlinquishing the life of a squatter, and 

 taking up his residence in Sydney, Mr. Campbell developed a 

 lasting interest in matters relating to fish and fisheries. For 

 some years, and until its abolition, he was a member of the old 

 Board of Fisheries ; and a few months before his death he was 

 elected to the existing Board, in succession to the late Hon. John 

 Want, M.L.C. Mr. Campbell was elected to the Legislative 

 Assembly, as Member for West Sydney, in 1868. From Novem- 



