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nisbed its specialists with abundant funds for their investigations 

 and their maintenance, and equipped the Society's rooms with 

 fittings, furniture, and apparatus for scientific research, further- 

 more, he was the chief instrument in obtaining the charter of the 

 Society, and he arranged to bequeath the sum of £35,000 for 

 the estabh'shment of four " Linnean Fellowships " of the annual 

 value of £400 each. 



He was a Pellow of the Senate of the University of Sydney, 

 and he was Chairman of the first Eisheries Commission appointed 

 under the fisheries Act. About three years ago the honour of 

 knighthood was conferred upon him. 



He was elected a Fellow of tins Society in 1866. He died on 

 the 7th of December, 1891. By the death of Sir William 

 Macleay, Australia loses a benefactor whose memory Science will 

 long delight to honour. 



Henet Nottidge Moselet, the son of the late Eev. Henry 

 Moseley, P.E.S., Eector of Olvaston and Canon of Bristol, was 

 born at "Wandsworth on November 14th, 1844. He was edu- 

 cated at Harrow and Oxford, Avhere, under the late Prof. Eolle- 

 ston, his remarkable powers of observation and iuA^estigation 

 were nurtured and developed. He took his degree in 1868, and 

 afterwards studied medicine successively in A'^ienna, London, and 

 Leipzig. His first scientific memoirs were published whilst at 

 Leipzig, ' On the Nerves of the Cornea of Mammals,' and ' On 

 the Circulation in the Wing of the Cockroach.' 



In 1871 he went as a member of the Government Eclipse 

 Expedition to Ceylon, where, in addition to the spectroscopic 

 observations with which he was charged, he also made a large 

 collection of Land-Planarians. The anatomy of these he worked 

 up afterwards at Oxford, and the results were published in the 

 ' Philosophical Transactions ' of the Boyal Society. In 1872 he was 

 appointed one of the naturalists to the * Challenger ' Expedition, 

 and maintained that post throughout the voyage. In addition 

 to his zoological work, he undertook the collecting of plants 

 whenever the Expedition touched land; and whilst at the 

 Admiralty Islands he made important anthropological studies on 

 the inhabitants. At the Cape he set himself to find and collect 

 Feripatus, and from the study of living specimens he was enabled 

 to throw important light upon the anatomy and development of 

 that imperfectly-known animal, his investigations being embodied 

 in a memoir sent home during the cruise and published in the 

 • Philosophical Transactions.' To the ' Challenger ' series of 

 Eeports he contributed the memoirs on the Hydroid, Alcyo- 

 narian, and Madreporarian Corals collected during the voyage. 



In 1879 he published his ' Notes of a Naturalist ou the 

 ' Challenger,' ' which contains a vast mass of valuable notes and 

 observations on geographical, ethnological, biological, and phy- 

 sical subjects. 



On the return of the ' Challenger ' Moseley was elected 



