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ferred the entire collection to the University of Sydney, together 

 with the sum of £6,000, for the maintenance of a Curator, with the 

 proviso that Mr. Master should retain the position, which he had 

 so creditably filled for fourteen years, and which he subsequently 

 held up to the time of his decease, on 23rd June, 1912, within one 

 month of the attainment of his seventy-fifth birthday. 



I have dwelt at some length upon this notice of Mr. Masters' 

 career, because some such recognition of his more than fifty years' 

 service in the cause of zoological science is due to his memory, and 

 also because of his active interest in the work of the Entomological 

 Society of New South Wales, of his early and long connection with 

 the Linnean Society of New South Wales, of which he was an 

 Original Members, elected in 1874; and also because of his lengthy 

 association with Sir William Macleay, and with the Macleay Col- 

 lection, in the maintenance, and development of which, he 

 played so important a part; and, lastly, because he was so well 

 known to Australian entomologists, and especially to those of this 

 State, who cannot but gratefully remember their indebtedness to 

 his kindness of heart, to his courtesy and readiness to forward 

 their studies, and to help them, in so far as it was in his power to 

 do so. With the exception of Central Australia and the North- 

 west, Mr. Masters had collected in some portion of every State in 

 the Commonwealth. He was possessed of an unrivalled knowledge 

 of the habits, and life-histories of Australian animals; and it is 

 much to be regretted that his distaste for the literary side of the 

 subject, has deprived us of much interesting matter, that it would 

 have been advantageous to us to have had on record, because so 

 much of its was acquired under most favourable conditions, when 

 settlement was only just beginning to interfere with the native 

 fauna. 



James Charles Cox, M.D., Edin., F.R.C.S., was such a well- 

 known figure in Sydney, that I need not dwell upon biographical 

 details, beyond mentioning that he was the fifth son of Mr. Edward 

 Cox, of Mulgoa, and grandson of Captain William Cox, of the 

 New South Wales Corps, who came to Australia in 1800, and was 

 the progenitor of the numerously-represented Australian branch 



