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Fostei' was an active member of the British Association, taking 

 his full share of the secretarial work of both the Sections and the 

 Council. He was President of Section L (Physiolog)-) at the 

 Toronto Meeting in 1S97, when he delivered an address on the 

 salient features of physiological activity in recent years, and Presi- 

 dent of the Association at the Dover Meeting in 1899. In that 

 year he was created a Knight Commander of the Order of the 

 Bath. 



In 1900 he was elected to Parliament as Eepresentative of 

 London University, and sat as its Member till Mr. Balfour's 

 Government resigned, Postei' was not a party man, but he most 

 faithfully represented the world of science, and when he s])oke his 

 words were weighty. Still, as things are now, a Member of 

 Parliament who puts the State above the party is apt to receive 

 cold looks from the official managers, and on seeking re-election, 

 in 190G, Poster lost his seat by twenty-four votes. 



Foster was one of the men who counted during the last half of 

 Queen Victoria's reign. To him education owes much, and through 

 his pupils his influence is an ever-widening one. He initiated 

 many new organisations for co-ordinating and advancing science, 

 and through these his name will be pei'petuated. He was wise in 

 council, sound in judgment ; very helpful and encouraging to his 

 ])upils : very persuasive. AboA^e all, he had a gift for friendship 

 which to many has made the world a poorer place since, last 

 January, they heard the news of his sudden death. 



[A. E, Shipley.] 



Feederick Ebnest Geant was born at Farlesthorpe, Lincohi- 

 shire, on 23rd March, 1866, and died at Sydney, Australia, 31st 

 January, 1907. In 1883 he emigrated to New Zealand. Five 

 years later he entered the service of the Union Bank of Australia. 

 While stationed at the Auckland branch he formed a collection of 

 natural history, and gained a good knowledge of the local fauna, 

 especially of the mollusca. 



When the Bank transferred him to the Melbourne office, he 

 much appreciated the wider intellectual horizon which life in a 

 large city opened for him. He became an active member of the 

 local scientific societies. At first geology was his chief hobby. 

 From 1901 he published, in conjunction with Mr. E, Ihiele (now 

 Govt, Geologist of Nigeria, Africa), several articles on geologv in 

 the ' Proceedings of the Eoyal Society of Victoria.' Remarking 

 that no local student had undertaken investigations in Crustacea, 

 he adopted the vacant field of carcinology. With Mr, S. W. Fulton 

 he wrote in the Trans. Eoy. Soc. of Victoria a series of papers 

 entitled " Some little-known Victorian Decapod Crustacea, with 

 Descriptions of new Species '" (1901-G), and a '■ Census of the 

 Victorian Decapod Crustacea." of which one part only ^ has 

 appeared. It was in 1901 that Messrs. Fulton and Grant re- 

 ported the curious fact that they had found the common shore- 

 crab of Great Britain living in Port Phillip, Victoria. 



