OBITUARY. 



Edward Pierson Ramsay, LL.D. 

 Curator, 22nd September, 1874 to 31st December, 1894. 



Dr. E. P. Ramsay was the third son of David Ramsaj-, M.D., 

 the owner of the Dobroyd Estate, Dobioyd Point, Long' 

 Cove. He was born at Dobroyd House on 3rd December 

 1842, and was, therefore, in his 75th year at tlie time of his 

 deatli. His education took place at St. Mark's Colleg'iate 

 School, first at Darling Point and later at Macquarie Fields, 

 presided over b}' tlie Rev. G. F. Macarthur, who later became 

 Head Master of The King's School, Parramatta. 



In 1863, Mr. Ramsay matriculated at the University, and 

 (in the same yeai') also entered as a student of St. Paul's 

 College. His name i-emained on the list of members of the 

 University until December, 1865. 



In apportioning the Dobroj'd Estate amongst tlie children 

 of Dr. David Ramsay, the laige and beautiful garden was 

 allotted to the subject of this notice, and came into bis hands 

 about the year 1867. He forthwith opened the Dobroyd New 

 Plant and Seed Nursery un 15th December, 1867, and was 

 engaged iu'its management until he was appointed Curator of 

 the Australian Museum. On the subject of this Nursery, 

 Mr. J. H. Maiden wrote to me thus : — 



" 1 have before me a ' Kevised List of Novelties ' for 1876, cultivated 

 for sale. . . . This is a creditable catalogue of 46 pages, 

 with ail index and a number of illustrations, most of them 

 local i^roducts. Some of the plants were claimed to be oifered 

 for the first time in the Colonies, and 1 have no doubt the 

 claim was a perfectly just one. . . . He had, undoubtedly 

 considerable knowledge in regard to the names and propaga- 

 tion of such plants as fell witliin his purview, and 1 look 

 upon him as a gentleman amateur of the old daj's, belonging 

 to the same category as the Macarthurs of Camden, who, like 

 himself, imported plants tor tlie love of tlie thing, and witli 

 the desire to recoup themselves wholly or in part by sales to 

 the Public." 



