128 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MCSKl'M. 



In the liistoric S. James Church of En^nlaiid, .Sy(hiey, built during 

 Governoi' Macquarie's time in 1S20, a mural tablet was erected to 

 his memory by the colonists of New South AVales.' Amonj;- 

 others, many tablets adorn its walls to perpetuate the memory of 

 different jiersons closely associated with the early histoi}' <>f tht- 

 colony. Next to Gilbert's is a tablet erected by the Executive 

 Government to the memory of Edmund Kennedy, Exi)l(»rer, who 

 was killed by the natives on the loth l)eceinber, lS4:f<, un<[ of his 

 nine companions who perished during the e.\pk)ratioii of York 

 Peninsula. Among the latter, was Thomas Wall, Naturalist, 

 brother to the first Curator of the Australian INIuseum. There 

 are also tablets to the memory of A\'illiam AVentworth, William 

 Sharp Macleay and Alexander Macleay, the latter a member of 

 Committee of the Australian Museum from its first connnencemeiit 

 in 1836, until his decease on the 19th July, 1848. 



The accompanying plate is reproduced from a photograph taken 

 with the kind permission of the Re\ . A\'. I. Carr-.Smith, IJector 

 of S. James Church. 



' A sliglit error occm-s in the date, (iilbort \v,i> >iH';irtMl on tl)c L'Ntli. not {] 

 29t]i of June, 1845. 



