OBITUARY NOTICE OF I)K. CHAS. PRENTICE. 



By F. M. BAILEY, F.L.S. 



[Read before the Royal Society of Qxieensland, 21st April, 1894.J 



By the death of Dr. Chas. Prentice, which occurred at his 

 residence, Woolloongabba, on 20th April, the scientific workers 

 of Queensland have suffered a very great loss, and therefore, 

 although he was not a member of this Society, a notice of the 

 sad event should be recorded in our Proceedings. The learned 

 Doctor was a resident amongst us for over thirty years, and 

 during the whole of that time was always a ready helper of those 

 working at the branches of scientific research of which he was a 

 master. The natural history subjects in which he took special 

 interest were the Ferns, Grasses, and Beetles ; but his know- 

 ledge was by no means confined to these. The Doctor has not 

 been an extensive public writer in Queensland, but he has been 

 appointed upon several Boards and Koyal Commissions of im- 

 portance. His loss will be felt by the many, but by none more 

 than by him who pens these few lines. 



