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President of the Linnean Society of Xew South Wales and the 

 Royal Society of Xew Soutli AVaies is proof of the high esteem he 

 enjoys among his scientitic colleagues. 



Will you, Sir George, when transmitting to him the medal, also 

 be good enough to assure him of the most cordial wishes of the 

 Fellows who are assembled here at this anni\ersary meeting, and 

 are glad to have been associated with him for so many years in 

 the common bonds of this Societ}". 



Sir George Reid acknowledged his gratification in thus acting 

 on behalf of the recipient. 



The General Secretary then laid the obituary rotices of 

 deceased rello\\s before the Meeting, and the proceedings 

 terminated. 



OBITUARY NOTICES. 



RiCHAED John Andeeson, M.A., M.D., at the time of his 

 death, on the 24th July, 1914, from an attack of pneumonia, was 

 Professor of Natural History, Geology, and Mineralogy in 

 University College, Galway. He was the second son of his 

 parents, Robert Anderson and Elizabeth, born Harcourt, and was 

 born on the 29th July, 1848, at Ballybot, Newry, thus being five 

 days short of completing his 66th year when he died. He passed 

 in succession through the Newry School, Queen's College and 

 Hospital in Belfast, and then further studied in Leipzig, Loudon, 

 Paris, Heidelberg, and Naples, and after minor appointments 

 became Professor in Queen's College, Galway, in 1883. He led 

 a busy life in academic circles, congresses and meetings, and 

 published over 300 papers on items of natural history. He 

 joined this Society on the 18th June, 1885. [B. D. J.] 



MoEDECAi CrsiTT CooKE. — By the death of Mordecai Cubitt 

 Cooke, M.C., M.A., LL.D., on November the 12th, 1914, the 

 Linnean Society lost one of its oldest and most prominent 

 Associates, whose name it also counted among the small number 

 of the recipients of its gold medal. M. C. Cooke was born at 

 Horning, Norfolk, on July the 12th, 1825, as the son of a village 

 shopkeeper. His early education seems to have been anything 

 but methodical. He passed in tuim through the hands of a lady 

 teacher, a nonconformist minister, and a pedagogue who combined 

 the profession of a land-surveyor with that of a schoolmaster, and 

 trained his pupil on the same basis. Not less varied was his 

 early start in practical life. Apprenticeship to a drapery estab- 

 lishment at Norwich when fifteen years of age, copying in a 

 solicitor's office, attempts at literary productions, lecturing on 

 poetry and teaching, led to a more settled activity as a master 

 at the new Trinity School at Lambeth (1850-1860). During tiie 

 ten years he held this post he formed a museum of economic 

 products and lectured on economic botany. This included the 



