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In 1902 Mr. Grant re-visited England and took the opportunity 

 of studying the carcinological collection of the British Museum. 

 He attended several Meetings, and was elected a Fellow of the 

 Linnean Society, 18th December, 1902. 



On his return to Australia, the Bank transferred him to the 

 Sydney office. He immediately took an active share in the scientific 

 life of that city, and was elected to the Council of the Linnean 

 Society of New South Wales. In 1904 he joined an expedition 

 organised by Mr. C. Hedley for biological work on the Great 

 Barrier Reef. With the assistance of Mr. A. R. MacCulloch he 

 reported on the Crustacea obtained by the party. He also accom- 

 panied two deep-sea dredging-expeditions. In the ' Proceedings 

 of the Linnean Society of New South Wales ' he published an 

 account of the Crustacea obtained by the first, and was engaged 

 in writing up that of the second at the time of his decease. A 

 posthumous paper on the Crustacea of Norfolk Island will appear 

 shortly. He leaves a widow and three children. [C. Heulby.] 



Sir Thomas Hanbuby, K.C.V.O., Avho was born at Clapham, near 

 London, 21st June, 1832, and who died on the 9th March, 1907, 

 belonged to a family who had for several generations been members 

 of the Society of Friends. Sir Thomas spent nearly twenty years in 

 Shanghai, where he was a leading merchant, much beloved by the 

 Chinese commercial community on account of his kind and sympa- 

 thetic, but at the same time just, treatment of them. During a visit 

 paid to England in the year 1867 he acquired by purchase the Palazzo 

 Orenga, situated on a beautiful spot on the Italian Riviera, about 

 four miles from Mentone on the west, and about twice as far from 

 Bordighera on the east. This house had been in former times the 

 property of the Oi'enga family of Ventimiglia. With the house 

 he acquired also the extremely picturesque ridge which extends 

 from the village of La Mortola to the sea, into which it projects 

 as a long narrow promontory of about 50 acres in extent. Re- 

 tiring from China and relinquishing his business career a few years 

 later, Sir Thomas settled in the Palazzo, which he enlarged con- 

 siderably, and it remained his home until his death. For many 

 years he occupied himself in transforming the La Mortola ridge 

 into one of the most picturesque gardens in Europe. Full ad- 

 vantage was taken of the natural features of the ground so as to 

 secure good landscape effects, and the views along the coast 

 stretching from Bordighera to Mentone were perfectly charming. 

 There was a total absence of vulgarity, and no suggestion what- 

 ever of carpet- or ribbon-bedding and other undesirable forms of 

 horticulture. 



The La Mortola ridge is bounded on the east by a picturesque 

 ravine, the further side of which lies within the Principality of 

 Monaco. Here is a tract of country which, in times past, had been 

 almost entirely denuded of its natural vegetation by the ravages 

 of goats in search of food and by peasants in search of fuel. A 

 piece of this bare tract was leased by Sir Thomas and was most 



