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the freshwater Crustacea of Tasmania and the freshwater 

 Crayfishes of Australia, besides a fascinating little work, 

 ''A Naturalist in Tasmania.' Then his field of research 

 was greatly expanded and developed in the line of an ex- 

 perimental analysis of sex. We are told in "Nature, Aug. 

 17" of this year, that he had already published eleven 

 memoirs on this subject, and also of the far-reaching r©- 

 search he was bringing to bear upon it, when to him, as 

 to many other fine fellows, the end came suddenly, and 

 robbed the world of the work of a master mind. The war 

 broke out, and Geoff. Smith was amongst the first to offer 

 his life to his country. His worth soon gained him a cap- 

 taincy in the Kifle Brigade, and we who knew^ him here 

 can well ilnagine the whole-souled manner in which he 

 would do his duty. On July 10 of this year, in the fight- 

 ing at the Somme, after his men had successfully taken 

 a trench from the enemy, he was killed by a shell. Thus 

 a life of brilliant promise was extinguished in the early 

 portion of its career. 



L. RODWAY. 



