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an admirable report of the conference which he was commissioned 

 to attend, setting an example which delegates in general would do 

 well to follow. A trusty friend 1 [T. E. E. S.] 



Feederick Meert weather Burtois' was born in 1S29, and 

 educated at Eugby, becoming in due course a solicitor, and from 

 1859 to 1902 the Registrar of the Grainsborough County Court. 

 Although he had lost his right arm in consequence of an acci- 

 dent when shooting, he was not disabled from the duties of his 

 profession. During his career he collected Lepidoptera and 

 shells in the region round Lincoln, Grantham and Grainsborough, 

 extending his excursions as opportunities offered : these specimens 

 are now invaluable vouchers of many species fairly common in the 

 " forties and fifties *' of the past century, which have now bectmie 

 rare, or even extinct. 



Besides collecting in almost every branch of zoology. Mr. Burton 

 was accustomed to bring bach alpine plants from Xorway. Switzer- 

 land and Canada, forming a most interesting and instructive series, 

 combined with natives from Scotland and AVales, in his garden. 

 Xevertheless, his chief interest and nearly all his writings were 

 concerned with geology. He was President of the Lincolnshire 

 Naturalists' L^nion for 1894-5, and he was largely instrumental 

 in establishing the County Museum at Lincoln, to which he 

 intended leaving his own collections, and a selection of his books. 

 He became a Fellow of our Society 3rd June, 1SS6, and of the 

 Geological Society in 1S61. He died on the 17th May. 1912, at 

 his residence, Highfiehi, Gainsborough. [B. D. J.] 



Dr. James Charles Cox. who died at his house ' Glen Iris.' 

 Eaglan Street, Mosman, New South Wales, on the 29th September, 

 1912, was a well-known and prominent man in Sydney >cientific 

 circles. He was a grandson of Capt. AVilliam Cox, Paymaster of 

 the New South AVales Corps, who arrived in Sydney in January 

 ISOO in charge of Irish " Eebels," and the third son of Edward 

 Cox, of Mulgoa, 40 miles west of Sydney, where he was born, 

 21st Jul\% 1S34 ; his motlier was a daughter of one of the masters 

 in the passenger trade from Great Britain to Australia named 

 Brooks. 



In an interview shortly before his death Dr. Cox gave some 

 interesting particulars of his youthful days and early experiences 

 of professional life in Sydney. He said : — 



'• When I was 14 I lived at Mulgoa, near Penrith. After 

 attending the school at the Parish Church Parsonage under the 

 Eev. Thomas Makiuson. I was sent to the King's Shool. Parra- 

 matta, under the Rev. E. Forrest, where I remained three years. 

 Owing to my early love of natural history, my father apprenticed 

 me in Sydney to Dr. Henry Gratton Douglas for three years, and 

 I then attended Sydney Hospital as a student under the late 

 Drs. M'Ewan and Nathan. At the same time I was taken on by 



