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The Rt. Hon. John Forrest, 1st Baron Forrest of Bnnbury, 

 did not live long to enjoy tlie title which was conferred upon him 

 in May 1918, dying on tlie '3vd of ISepteniber of that year. 



He was born at Leschenault, West Anstralia, ou the 

 22nd August, 1847, the third son of William Forrest, was 

 educated at Bishop's School, Perth, and when 18 years of age, in 

 1865, he entered the Survey Department. Four years later 

 he led the expedition in search of Dr. Leichliardt's party, the 

 first of several wliich he conducted, through the centre of 

 Australia, nearly 2000 miles in extent, in 1874, with horses only, 

 and for this he was given 5000 acres by the Government. He 

 became the first Premier of the Commonwealth, and was con- 

 tinuously and fully employed on State business to the close of 

 his life. He published 'Explorations in Australia,' 1875, and 

 'Notes on Western Australia,' 1884-87. In 1876 he married 

 JNIargaret Elvire, eldest daughter of Edward Hamersley, J. P., 

 of Pyrton, W. Australia. The honours accorded to a strenuous 

 and successful statesuum were : The Privy Councillorship, 1891; 

 K.C.M.G-. in 1891, U.C.M.G. in 1901, and LL.D. of Cambridge, 

 Adelaide, and Perth ; Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy, 

 1875. His election as Fellow of the Linuean Society took 

 place on the IGth June, 1881 ; he also belonged to the Geological 

 and lloyal Geographical Societies, and was Hon. Member of the 

 Geographical Societies of Eome, Vienna, and Petrograd. 



[B. D. J.] 



The Et. Hon. Sir Edward Fry, G.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., F.E.S., 

 F.S.A., F.L.S., leaves behind him a noble record of public service. 

 Eminent as a lawyer and a judge, he won yet higher distinction 

 as a great arbitrator, having been called upon by successive 

 Governments to decide in many questions of both national and 

 international importance. Whatever the task he undertook, 

 whether for public or private welfare, he could be relied upon for 

 perfect integrity, swift mastery of facts, and a singular fairness 

 of judgment. 



JGduard Fry belonged to a well-known Quaker family, and was 

 born in Bristol, November 4th, 1827- As a boy, he and his 

 brothers were enthusiastic collectors of flowers, exploring their 

 neighbourhood, which included the prolific hunting-ground of 

 St. Vincent's liocks, in searcli of rare plants. He was educated 

 at Bristol College, and University College, London, where he took 

 a B.A. degree, with honours in classics and physiology. Through- 

 out his life and amidst the |)ressing occupations of a legal career, 

 his classical and scientific studies were never allowed to drop. 

 The writings of the ancient authors were alive to him, and, with 

 the aid of a retentive memory, were a continual possession. 

 AVith wide interests in many branches of science, in archaeology, 

 astronomy, geology, it was to botany that he devoted most atten- 

 tion. He published in 1892 a little book, ' British Mosses,' of 

 which a second edition appeared in 1908. This gives a simple 



