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other minerals in the gulleys and creeks ; and more than once 

 predicted a grand future for Tasmania by the value of her 

 minerals, which he had every reason to believe would be found in 

 abundance when diligently searched for. 



Edw^ard Milker was born at Darley, in Derbyshire, of a good 

 old family, his ancestors having owned laud there since 1600. 

 He was well educated at Bakewell Grammar School, and appren- 

 ticed to Sir Joseph Paxton, then Steward and Head Gardener to 

 the Duke of Devonshire. After his apprenticeship he went to 

 Paris to study for four years, chiefly at the Jardin des Plantes, 

 under the Professors attached to that then flourishing insti- 

 tution. After travelling through Europe he returned to England, 

 where he visited and reported on many of the principal gardens 

 for Dr. Lindley, then Editor of the ' Gardeners' Chronicle.' In 

 184*1 Sir Joseph Paxton entrusted to him the work of superin- 

 tending the laying-out of the Prince's Park, Liverpool, the first 

 park made with the view of increasing the selling-value of the 

 surrounding land. This work was most successful, and was the 

 beginning of Mr. Milaer's professional work. When the Crystal 

 Palace at Sydenham was decided on, Sir Joseph Paxton gave 

 to Mr. Milner the carrying out of the extensive garden-works 

 connected with it. Since then, Mr. Milner has most successfully 

 practised for himself; his works, in the natural style, were 

 not contined to this country, but are well kuown in France, 

 Belgium, the Ehine Provinces, Denmark, and Sweden. 



In 1881 the Crystal Palace Company organized a School of 

 Gardening, of which Mr. Milner was asked to be the Principal. 

 He undertook the work in connexion with his son, Mr. Henry 

 Milner, who, having been his principal assistant for several years, 

 was now taken into j)artnership. He died at Dulwich Wood, 

 Norwood, on March 26th, 1884. 



John Jardine Murray, F.R.C.S.E., of Brighton, was born at 

 Edinburgh April 30th, 1834. He was the eldest son of George 

 Murray, Esq., late of The Keir, Wimbledon Common, and 

 formerly Principal of the Edinburgh Institution. At this well- 

 known establishment Mr. Murray received his early education ; 

 and as a boy he became noted for his keen interest in all manly 

 and intellectual pursuits. His grandfather, the E,ev. John Jar- 

 dine, Minister of the Secession Kirk, at Langliolm, N.B., was a 

 man of no mean acquirements ; and it is not unlikely, therefore, 

 that these parental antecedents had much to do with Mr. 

 Murray's subsequent success in life. Had he devoted himself to 

 pure science, his merits and work would have extended far and 

 wide. His career aftbrds an instance of a man w^ho, with the 

 strongest natural-history tastes combined with an eminently phi- 

 losophical turn of mind, would not allow himself to be diverted 

 from those professional pursuits which, as he conceived, duty had 



