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PEOCEEDIIS'GS OF THE 



generous nature of the man and his enthusiasm for a favourite 

 pursuit. 



His native town was never forgotten. He gave £1000 to 

 Penzance, the interest on which is appropriated to relieving the 

 wants of deserving poor under the name of the ' Colenso Dole.' 



In .1896 he put before the Hawkes Bay (N.Z.) Philosophical 

 Institute a scheme for a Museum, towards which he offered the 

 sum of £1000, stipulating that the Museum should be open on 

 Sunday afternoons. The reception of this most generous offer 

 Avas not encouragine:, and after some time he withdrew it. 



He retained a fair share of bodily health and strength to 

 within a very short period of his death, travelling long distances 

 to supply occasional help in parishes distant from his own home, 

 even at the age of 86. He died at Napier, 10th February last. 



Colenso was elected a Fellow of the Eoyal Society in 18S6 

 for Ids services to botanic science, whilst his connection with our 

 own Society was, as noted above, continued for 34 years, 



S'r Douglas Galtow, K.C.B., P.'R.S., was born in 1822, 

 educated at Eugbv and the Koyal Military Academy, after- 

 wards obtaining his commission in the Royal Engineers while 

 only 18 years of age, under circumstances of exceptional 

 distinction. He soon afterwards (in 1847) entered upon a 

 successful series of public engagements, which rapidly made 

 him famous in engineering circles and as a sanitarian, and in all 

 the great sanitary undertakings of the last 40 years or more his 

 name and authority have been conspicuous. Beginning public 

 life as Secretary to the Commission upon the application of iron 

 to railway-structures, he became an Inspector of Railways and 

 Secretary of the Railway Department of the Board of Trade ; 

 and after resigning this he continued to do good work in 

 railway experimentation. His fame finds a lasting record in the 

 annals of Sub-marine Telegraphy and in that of Fortress Con- 

 struction. He became in 1862 Assistant Under-Secretary of 

 State for War ; and on his retirement from that office, he was 

 appointed Director of Works and Public Buildings in H.M. 

 Office of Works. While thus and by his scientific papers he 

 was distinguished as an expert, he for a period of 25 years held 

 the onerous office of General Secretary of the British Associa- 

 tion, demanding talents of a wider order and great administrative 

 skill. It was in this capacity that his many-sided sympathies 

 with science and culture were most evident; and the success of 

 tiie Association's labours during his period of office render his 

 memory dear to all scieutitic men. On his retirement from the 

 Secretarial office, he was made President of the Association for 

 its Ipswich Meeting (1895). As an inventor he was original, as 

 a sanitarian he was both successful and popular, a leading mover 

 at the Sanitary Institute and the Parkes Museum. He was 

 in 1850 elected au Hon. Member of the lu-stitution of Civil 

 Engineers, and in 1859 a Fellow of the Royal Society, and 



