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I-!AAC Eterlet was born in tlie Isle of Wi^lit, and early mo-^ed 

 to Liverpool, where he studied medicine, afterwards completing 

 his course in Dublin and London. Qualifying in 1831, too young 

 to receive his diploma, he took a voyage to the "West Indies, and 

 therein cultivated that love of nature which dominated his later 

 life. He started practice at Upton, where he remained in charge 

 of an immense district until 1S54, when he removed to Seacombe, 

 on the death of one Dr. Halliday. Meanwhile he had become a 

 Member of the Eoyal College of Siir2:eons, En>iland, of whii-h 

 he was made a Fellow in 1857. In 1886 he retired from practice 

 and devoted himself entirely to his long cherished naturalist 

 pursuits and his garden, and with the aid of a faithful servant 

 " Sam " he so developed his estate and its surroundings that 

 they became a local byword, with which he was himself as-^o- 

 ciated as " The Old Duke." AVhile at Upton he became en- 

 grossed in tho local flora and fauna ; and, following the example 

 of his friend the late Dr. Dickinson of Liverpool, he edited a 

 riora of that district and the neigiibourho id, for which he was 

 afterwards awarded the annual Medal of the Ringsley Natural 

 History Society of Chester. His investigations on the banks 

 of the" Dee resulted in the discovery of new species of both 

 plants and animals, conspicuously of Crustaceans, and many and 

 amusing are the anecdotes told of his adventures on some of 

 these occasions in company with his friend the late Dr. Higgins, 

 ■well known in connection with the Liverpool Museum. 



He was Surgeon to the "Wallasey Dispensary and Seacombe 

 Cottage Hospital, in which lie took the greatest interest till his 

 death. He served on the Local Board of Commissioners for 

 public water-supply, and became in due course Medical Officer 

 of Health. 



Mr. Byerley was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society 

 on ] 8th April, 1851 ; and died on Sunday, 20th June, lb97, at the 

 age of 83, revered and respected by all about him. 



The Hon. Sir William Laaibert Dobsox, E.C.M.Gr., Chief 



Justice of Tasmania, was the eldest sou of John Dobson, of 

 Hobart Town, and was born in 1833. He was called to the Bar 

 of the Middle Temple in 1856, and to the Tasmanian Bar the 

 following year, became Attorney-Greneral of Tasmania in 18G1, 

 puisne jud^ge 1870, Chiet Justice in 1865, knighted the foil )wing 

 Tear, and created K.C.M.Gr. in 1897. He administered the 

 government of the Colony from November 1886 to March 1887, 

 a period of fourteen weeks. He was elected Fellow of this 

 Society on 20th December, 1883, aud aied on 17th March, 1898. 



Joseph AV^illtam Duiskiis"G, only son of Joseph Dunning, 

 Solicitor, of Leeds, was born there on 5th November, 1833. He 

 was educated near Huddersfield, at the school of Peter Inchbald, 

 an enthusiastic naturalist, and young Duninng under his watchful 

 care, while still a schoolboy, rediscovered the Agropliila sulpliu- 

 ralis. Leaving school he went to Pari; to read with a,u English 



