104 ANNUAL UEPORT. 



(•^bituanj notices;. 



REV. F. H. BARING, M.A., F.K.C.S. 



Rev. F. H. Baring, M.A., F.R.G.S.. was elected a life 

 member in 1907. He resided at Triabimna. He died in 

 New Zealand in September, 1914. 



THE HON. (J. H. CUTLER, M.R CS., L.R.U.P., M.L.C., 1S54-10U. 



The Honourable Gamaliel Henry Butler was a son of the 

 Honourable Henrj^ Butler, a member of the House ot 

 Assembly, and some time its Speaker. He was educated 

 at the High School at Hobart, arfd in London, where he 

 qualified as a medical practitioner. He afterwards re- 

 turned to Hobart and pr.K;tised tbero until liis death. 



Dr. Butler was elected to the Legislative Council in 

 1896, and from 1909 until a few months before his death 

 he was Chief Secretary of Tasmania. He was a member 

 of many public and semi-public bodies, and he gave much 

 of his time to the service of the community. 



In 1896, on the formation of the Medical Section (now 

 the Tasmanian Branch of the British Medical Association), 

 Dr. Butler became a member of the Society, and in 1901 

 he was elected to the Council. In 1911 the Council cliosf 

 him to be its Chairman, ^nd in the same year he was 

 elect-cd Chairman of the Trustees of the Tasmnian Museum 

 and Botanical Gardens. He rarely missed a meeting of 

 either body, and his colleagues owed much to his kindly 

 and expeditious conduct of their affairs, and to the wise 

 advice which his wide experience frequently enabled him 

 to sivc. 



HEUT.-COLONKL UK HARD CHARLES LKWLS, D..S.O., 18(i2-1314. 



Lieut.-Colonel Lewis, who was born in Hobart in 1862, 

 was engaged for the greater part of his life in commercial 

 pui-suits in Southern Tasmania. He served in the South 

 African War in command of a company of the Imperial 

 Bushmen, raised in Tasmania, and saw much active service 

 and hard fighting. For his sei-vices he was awarded the 

 Distinojuislied Service Order, iind was promoted to the rank 

 of major. Tlie doiiii^s of tlie force witli wliicli be served 

 were reronled in a book, "On the Veldt," wlii.h he published 

 hi Hobart in l!)0-!. He was elected a meiuber of the Society 

 in the same v<>iir. 



