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and to science in general. For forty years he was incessantly 

 engaged with the Geology of Australia, without, on that account, 

 neglecting the various duties which his profession involved. And 

 when at last, in his 81st year, that night came in which no man 

 can work, it found him adding, with a still busy and energetic 

 hand, the last touches to his last and scarcely completed labours. 



It is understood that his valuable Library, and quite invaluable 

 collections, maps, and papers, are to be secured for the use of the 

 public of New South Wales. It will be difficult to display 

 them in any existing building, except, perhaps, the Australian 

 Museum, in which a space might possibly be cleared on the 

 second floor, for their separate exhibition. The Maps and 

 memoranda should be published, with all possible dispatch ; and 

 no time lost in editing. Their unavoidable imperfections are not 

 blemishes, and the monument, for such it is, ought to be com- 

 pleted before the memory of the man is effaced. 



Although Mr. R. Daintree, C.M.G., F.G.S., was not, except in 

 one particular instance, directly connected with the Geology of 

 New South Wales, yet his services, both in Victoria and Queens- 

 land, have proved of the very highest service to all the Australias. 

 In Victoria he was associated with Mr. Selwyn, then director of 

 the unfortunately interrupted Geological survey of that Colony, 

 in the investigation of the so-called Carbonaceous beds at Cape 

 Patterson and elsewhere. And in Queensland, where he was 

 appointed (1869) Government Geologist for the Northern dis- 

 trict, he not only, in the two or three years of his official employ- 

 ment, traversed vast tracts of hitherto unexplored country, but 

 was able to lay down, with a surprising amount of detail, a 

 general map of its Geology. Here he also obtained much 

 valuable data for the determination of that vexed question, the 

 age of the New South Wales coal, to which I have already 

 referred. Since 1871, he had not been resident in Australia ; 

 and his health, which had been much injured by exposure and 

 hardship finally broke down altogether in the month of July last, 

 when he died at the early age of 47. 



The death of Dr. Bleecker, the accomplished Ichthyologist, 

 whose magnificent work on the Fishes of the Indian Seas affords 



