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arrived at Auckland. The Austrian ft-igate ' ISTovara,' then on her 

 eventful cruize, put into that port the very next day, no that 

 Dr. Hochstetter, who was left behind, found a zealous coadjutor 

 in Dr. Haast during those journeys, which resulted in Hoch- 

 stetter's volume on these islands. 



After this the New Zealand Government engaged him to ex- 

 plore the west coast of Nelson Province ; on this he investi- 

 gated the Southern Alps, publishing his report under date Jan. 1, 

 1861. 



Before this report saw the light he had undertaken the govern- 

 ment survey-work as to the possibility of constructing a tunnel 

 between Cliristchurch and its port, Lyttletou. The next year he 

 received the command of the Greological Survey of Canterbury, 

 the first appointment of the kind in the colony. He was now 

 in his right place : he mapped the great glacier district of the 

 Southern Alps, and made innumerable observations in many 

 branches of science, embodying them in his chief book, ' The 

 Greology o£ Canterbury and Westland.' In 1886 he visited this 

 country as New Zealand Commissioner at the Indian and Colonial 

 Exhibition. Before his return he visited many of the continental 

 capitals, obtaining abundance of material for the Canterbury 

 Museum ; but his labours in this respect were doubtless the cause 

 of his death, of heart-disease, one month after his return to New 

 Zealand, on Aug. ]6, 1887. He was knighted in 1886, elected 

 F.K.S. 1867, and joined our Society 21st January 186i. 



Edwin Lees, well known as a Worcestershire naturalist, was 

 born in 1800. He began life as a printer and stationer, and his 

 first essay as a botanist was his Catalogue of local plants, pub- 

 lished in 1821 as an appendix to his ' Guide to the City aud 

 Cathedral,' under the pseudonym o£ Ambrose Florence. He 

 gave up business early in life, and thenceforward devoted himself 

 to the promotion of Natural History. He was prominent in 

 founding the Worcester Natural History Society, the Worcester 

 Naturalists' Club (of which he was first President), and the 

 Malvern Club, and remained a frequent attendant and contri- 

 butor to their proceedings. 



His best known works are ' Botany of the Malvern Hills ' in 

 184)3, which reached a third edition in 18G8, ' Botany of Wor- 

 cestershire ' in 18G7, ' Botanical Looker-out,' and ' Pictures of 

 Nature.' 



His name is botanically commemorated by Buhiis Lcesii, Bab., 

 he being an early student of the brambles. He was elected 

 Eellow of the Society as far back as November 17, 1835, died at 

 Worcester October 21, 1887, and was buried on the 28th of that 

 month at Eudock, near Tewkesbury. 



John Millar was born in Scotland in 1818, and educated at 

 Glasgow University. In 1838 he received the License of the 



