Z SOIL FERTILITY. 



During the year the Society has suffered the loss by 

 death of one corresponding member and two ordinary mem- 

 bers. 



The Rev. George Brown, C.M.Z.S., President of the 

 Australian Methodist Conference, had been a corresponding 

 member of the Society since 1910. He was born at Barnard 

 Castle, Durham, on 7th December, 1835. He was educated 

 in England, and went to sea in 1851. He sailed for New 

 Zealand in 1855 and while in Auckland conceived the idea 

 of church work. He became a missionary and lived in 

 Samoa from 1860 to 1874, and at Port Hunter in the 

 Bismarck Archipelago from 1875 to 1880. He travelled 

 very extensively in the South Sea Islands, and was able 

 to speak a number of the island languages. He died on 

 the 9th April, 1917, at the age of 81. 



Dr. T. P. Lucas joined the Royal Society of Queens- 

 land on 13th April, 1887. He was born at Dunbar, Scotland, 

 in July, 1843, and died in Brisbane, 15th November, 1917. 

 He studied and became a medical practitioner in London^ 

 being a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, England. 

 In 1876 he came to Australia and for ten years practised 

 his profession in Melbourne, afterwards coming to Queens- 

 land. He was an extensive collector of natural history 

 specimens and was a member of the Linnean Society of New 

 South Wales and the Entomological Society, London. 

 He made a number of contributions to the British Medical 

 Journal and also published a number of jDapers in the 

 Proceedings of this Society. 



The following is a list of his contributions to the Proceed- 

 ings of this Society : — New Species of Queensland Butter- 

 flies, vi, (2 and 3), p. 117 : Six New Species of Rhopalocera, 

 vi, (4), 155 ; On 34 New Species of Australian Lepidoptera, 

 viii, (3), 68 ; The Colouration of Insects, xi, (2), 66 ; The 

 Flying Fox : its habits and depredations, xii, 49 ; Descriptions 

 of Queensland Lepidoptera, xiii, 59 ; Scrubs and the part 

 they play in the mitigation of tropical floods, xiv, 2 (title 

 only printed) ; New Species of Queensland Lepidoptera, 

 XV, 137 ; Queensland Lepidoptera, xvi, 73 ; A few scientific 

 notes taken during the present drought, xvii, (2), 97. 



