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tiie Auduljoii Societies in eaeli State of the Uiiion^ and is 

 besides, tlirougli the energy and enthusiasm of its President, 

 possessed of amjjle means, which are devoted to the main- 

 tenance of special bird-reserves, to work among the schools 

 and school-children, and to jjropaganda and the guiding of 

 the legislatures in the various States of the Union in regard 

 to the protection and conservation of wild life. 



Mi'.Dutcher was a Fellow of the American Ornithologists' 

 Union and a 3Iember of their Council. 



Robert Etheridge. 



Mr. Robert Etheridge, the son of the distinguished 

 geologist and paheontologist of the same name, died after a 

 short attack of pneumonia at Colo Vale, near Sydney, on 

 the 4th of January of last year. He was elected a Member 

 of the Union in 1914. 



Born in 1847 in England, he early took up geological work 

 in Australia in the middle sixties. He returned to England 

 and was for a short time, together with his father, on the 

 staff of the Geological Department of the Natural History 

 Museum. In 1887 he went back to Australia as palsecnto- 

 logist to the Geological Survey of New South Wales and to 

 the Australian Museum at Sydney, of which latter institution 

 he subsequently became Director. His scientific work and 

 publications were, we believe, entirely concerned with geology 

 and [)ahcontology, and his interest in ornithology was purely 

 that of an amateur. 



John Gerrard. 



John Gerrard, F.G.S., M.B.O.U., who died at the age of 

 70 at his residence at Worsley, Lancashire, on 28 July last, 

 was born at Ince Hall in the heart of the Lancashire colliery 

 district, and inherited from his father, a mining engineer, 

 some of the gifts which proved so useful during his long 

 life of practical experiment and investigation. He was 

 educated at Wigan Grammar School, and entered the 

 service first of the Ince Hall and then of the St. Helens 



