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ciation for the Advancement of Science ; and whenever honest 

 work in Ornithology was being performed, Seebohm, frank and 

 sincere, desirous of ariving only at the truth, was generally at 

 hand. 



He died on Norember 26th, 1S95, in his 6ith year, after a 

 severe attack of influenza.' 



He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society, ISth December, 

 1879, and on several occasions did good work as a Councillor. 



David Sullivan was born about the year 1836, and for twenty 

 vears before his death, which occurred on 2ud June, 1895, at 

 Moyston, Victoria, was head teacher of the State School at that 

 place. He was an enthusiastic botanist, and communicated very 

 many new phints to Sir Perdinaud von Mueller, several of which 

 were named after him. The only publication by him extant is 

 ' The Census of the Grrampians Plants.' 



His health declining, he retired from his official duties ; but 

 very soon after he died, leaving a widow and several chiUlreu, his 

 eldest son being head teacher of Jallukar State School. His con- 

 nection with this Society dated from 21st February, 1831. 



John Elloe Tatlob, born in Levenshulme, Manchester, 21st 

 September, 1835, was employed in early life at the Kiilway 

 AVorks, Crewe, and devoted his leisure to the study of Geology, 

 with especial reference to that of the neighbourhood in which he 

 lived. The results of his labours were largely incorporated in 

 his ' G-eological Essays ' published in 1861<. 



While in the Korth he became a coutributor to a Manchester 

 paper, aud cultivated a desire for journalism w"ilh some success. 

 In 1862 he settled at Norwich as Editor ot the ' Norwich 

 Mercury.' In that capacity, by the publication of observations 

 in the ' G-eologioal Magazine ' aud elsewhere, and as a popular 

 writer and lecturer, he did much to encourage the study of tae 

 Geology of the Eastern Counties, and towards popularizing the 

 principles of Botanical aud Geological Science. 



As a zoologist, he did useful work in first directing attention 

 to the difierences in the MoUusca preserved in the two shell-beds 

 of the Norwich Crag at Bramertou. 



In coujunctiou with the late John Gunn, he established the 

 Norwich Geological Society, now incorporated with the Norfolk 

 Naturalists' Society. He was for many years Editor of ' Science 

 Gossip.' 



In 1872 he was appointed Curator of the Ipswich Museum, 

 from which office he retii-ed through ill-health in 1891<, a short 

 time prior to his decease, which took place at Ipswich on 28ch 

 September, 1895, in his 61st year. 



He was a Fellow of the Geological Society, and was elected a 

 Fellow of the Linnean Society, 5th June, 1873. 



