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•the late Professor Smith as his assistant, when first he commenced 

 lecturing on chemistry at the Sydney University, then in College- 

 istreet, now the Grammar School. 



" The museum at that early date was my delight, and I had a 

 •share in preparing the skeleton of the first great whale set up by 

 Wall, and prepared the first perfect skeleton of a South Sea 

 Islander ever made, whicli, in conjunction with Dr. Lynch, I 

 articulated and set up for the museum. 



" My apprenticeship having expired, 1 was sent to Edinburgh 

 to study medicine at the University, and graduated there in 1857, 

 .taking out a diploma of Surgery at the Eoyal College of Surgeons 

 of Edinburgh. Before leaving for Australia, in 3858, 1 was 

 proposed by Professor Lyne as a Eellow of the College, then being 

 the youngest Eellow ever elected, and through the lapse of time, 

 I am now the fourth or fifth from the top of the list of living 

 imembers in seniority." 



Arrived in Sydney in 1858 he began medical practice, and also 

 .associated himself with the three prominent societies — The 

 .Linneau Society of New South Wales, the Naturalists' Society of 

 ;New South Wales, and the Eoyal Society of New South AVales. 

 It was during his presidency of the foimier society that a dis- 

 astrous fire occurred in the premises of that society, destroying a 

 part of its library. An appeal was issued to publishing societies, 

 flaking for contributions of publications to make good the recent 

 losses, and our Council readily agreed to do all that could be done, 

 to replace the destroyed sets, unless the loss were made good from 

 other sources. Tliis was in 1882, and during 1883 a letter of 

 thanks was received for the offer. 



The claims of a busy professional life did not permit Dr. Cox 

 many chances of distinguishing himself as a writer, but to the end 

 of his life he was regarded as the chief representative of biologic 

 science in New South Wales. He was elected a Eellow of the 

 Linneau Society of London on the 16th January, 1868, the same 

 date on which the wi-iter of this notice was elected. [B. D. J.] 



Hekbert Druce was born in London on the 14th July, 1846, 

 and became interested in entomology at a very early age, which 

 not even the claims of a large business were able to efface. His 

 most extensive work was that on tlie Mexican Lepidoptera 

 Heterocera, forn)ing two volumes of text and one of plates in 

 Godman and Salvin's ' Biologia Ceutrali-Americana,' begnunng in 

 1881 and not yet complete. His smaller contributions to ento- 

 mological literature consisted of monographs of genera and 

 descriptions of new species which were added from time to time 

 to his collection. 



He became a Eellow of this Society on the 15th Eebrnary, 

 1872, and served on the Council from 1892 to 1895, and from 

 1901 to 1903, being also a Vice-President in 1902-03. An active 

 member of the Zoological Society, he served for two periods of six 

 ^and five years on the Council of that body, during the last two years 



