OF THE SOCIETY. 135 



1913. 



" 'May it please Your Excellency. 



" "The approaching termination of Your Excellency's 

 " 'residence in this Colony imposes upon the members of 

 " "the Tasmanian Society the painful duty of express- 

 " 'ing, however inadequately, their sorrow at an event which 

 '* 'entails upon them so irremediable a loss. 



'" 'While the share vrhich Your Excellency has contri- 

 " 'buted to the scientific renown of our native country com- 

 " 'mands the warmest expressions of our admiration and 

 " 'gratitude, we feel more especially bound to acknowledge 

 " 'the( part you have taken in promoting what we must 

 " 'ever consider to belong to the best and highest interests 

 " 'of Tasmania. 



'' 'In you we lose the founder of our Society, and a 

 " 'benefactor of unsparing liberality; in you we are about 

 "^ 'to be deprived of the Guide whose scientific experience 

 " 'hasi given effect to our feeble exertions, and invested 

 " 'them with an importance which they could not other- 

 " 'wise have obtained. 



'' 'Nor can we permit it to pass unremembered, that the 

 " 'friends of science have, upon this and no other claim, 

 " 'been ever treated as your personal friends, and admitted 



'to your domestic circle; and that our heartfelt regrets 

 ^' 'attend our approaching separation from one who is her- 

 " 'self the brightest ornament of that circle, whose zeal 

 " 'and whose kindness have enhanced the value of all Your 

 " 'Excellency has bestowed or we received, and have 

 "-'augmented the deep concern w^ith which we lament your 

 "'departure. 



" 'We have the honour to be, 

 " 'Your Excellency s faithful and affectionate Servants, 

 . "T.R. Tasmania'" [and 34 others]. 



"His Excellency was pleased to receive the Society's 

 "Address very graciously, and to acknowledge it in the 

 "following terms: — 

 " 'My Lord Bishop and Gentlemen, 



" 'It is impossible for me to receive unmoved an Address 

 " 'of this nature from my associates of the Tasmanian 

 " 'Society. 



'' 'You have kindly enhanced what little services I may 

 " 'in former fields of exertion have been able to perform 

 " 'for the cause of science far beyond their deserts ; and, in 

 " 'this country, I can only regret that neither my means 

 " 'nor my ability have been adequate to give more than 

 "'some initiatory encouragement to your efforts for the 

 " 'development of the natural phenomena of this very 

 ■"^ 'interesting portion of our globe. 



