Plate III, 



MEMOIBS OF TEE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



THE LATE MR. CHARLES W. DE VIS, M.A. 

 Obiit April 30tli, 1915 ; aged 87. 



For nearly thirty years the late Mr. Charles W. de Vis was closely associated with the 

 Queensland Museum, and during the major portion of that time he acted as Curator. The 

 deceased scientist accomplished a very considerable amoiuit of work as a vertebrate biologist 

 in the elucidation of the Queensland and New Gtiinea faunae, and his efforts as a systematist 

 are represented in mammalian, avian, reptilian, and piscine orders. He also contributed several 

 important papers as the result of his researches on the fossil marsupialia, birds, and reptilia. 

 His cosmopolitanism is evidenced by the vohmiinous nature of the manuscripts he left behind, 

 and the wide range of liis studies is interesting as representing what may well be called a pioneer 

 phase of Australian science. Unassuming in temperament, he vmited devotion to science with 

 a quiet culture, and these characteristics gained for him the esteem of many friends. 



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