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About Members. 



Mr. G. M. Mathews, F.R.S. Edin., has been elected a member of 

 committee, British Ornithologists' Union, in place of Mr. D. Seth- 

 Smith, F.Z.S., who retired by seniority. Although Mr. Mathews 

 resides in Britain, he is the first Australian (by birth) elected on 

 the committee of the venerable B.O.U. 



Capt. S. a. White, R.A.O.U., South Austraha, has been elected 

 a " Colonial Member " of the British Ornithologists' Union — 

 a coveted prize, as only ten living overseas ornithologists can hold 

 that distinction at one time. Capt. White is to be congratulated 

 accordingly. 



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Our member and keen-sighted observer, Private Les. G. 

 Chandler, has been slightly wounded (gassed) in France, where 

 he has been for over two years. Fellow-members will sympathize 

 with him in his temporary disablement. Sympathy is also 

 extended to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Chandler, of " Maloort," 

 Frankston, with the hope that their good son will soon return to 

 his humanitarian duties in the Field Ambulance Corps. 



Obituary Notices. 



LEGGE. — On the 25th March, 1918, at his residence, " CuUenswood House," 

 CuUenswood, Colonel W. V. Legge, late Royal Artillery, in his 78th 

 year. 



The late Colonel Legge, ex-Commandant Tasmanian Defence 

 Forces, had a distinguished and useful career. He was born at 

 CuUenswood, which is near St. Mary's, Tasmania, during " vellow- 

 haired September," 1841, his father, the late Mr. R. V. Legge, 

 being one of the earhest settlers in Eastern Tasmania. 



Young Legge was destined for the army, and proceeded to 

 England with his parents at the age of 12, and crossed the 

 Isthmus of Panama on mule-back. He was educated chiefly at 

 Bath, also in France and Germany, and was a most proficient 

 linguist, having taken the prize for German at the Royal Military 

 Academy at Woolwich (which he entered as a cadet), and was 

 beaten only in French by a cadet of French extraction. In 1862 

 he received his commission, and served first at Dover Castle with 

 the garrison, then was transferred to Melbourne, where he was 

 stationed with his battery (No. 7 of the 2nd Brigade) during the 

 Duke of Edinburgh's visit. He was in charge of the detachment 

 which fired the royal salute on the Duke's arrival in Port Phillip, 



