BY E. H. GUFNEY. 3 



Dene Barrett Fry was born at Lewisham, near Sydney, 

 in 1893. As a boy he went to live at Lindfield and in the 

 rocky gullies of that district he developed the love of nature 

 and interest in the living things of the bush, that later 

 influenced his choice of profession. Consequent on a boyish 

 review of Mr. A. J. North's book on Australian Birds, he 

 entered the service of the Australian Museum as a cadet in 

 1908. He remained at the Museum over five years during 

 which time he did good zoological work and published 

 four original papers. At the end of 1913 he courageously 

 resigned his position at the Museum, and studied with the 

 object of taking a Science course at the Sydney University. 

 He succeeded in matriculating in November, 1914, and 

 entered the University in 1915, the same year being 

 appointed demonstrator in Zoolog}^ 



He enlisted in 1D15 and was placed in the A.M.C. 

 He left Australia on 14th July, 1915, for England to join 

 the first Australian Hospital Ship (the Karoola). His 

 hope of doing pathological or some similar work was not 

 realised, such work having been found to be impracticable 

 on board, and on liis return to Australia he transferred 

 to the Infantry. He qualified for a Commission at Duntroon, 

 but there was a surplus of candidates, and rather than wait 

 indefinitely, he took the first opportunity^ to get away 

 and left rtoetralia for the second time on 22nd August, 1916. 

 He left Engiauci for France on 16th November, and spent 

 the next four months alternately in and out of the front 

 line, jDassing safely through a number of engagements. 

 On Easter Monday (9tli April), 1917, his company rushed a 

 German position, and Fry was killed. So the Royal Society 

 lost its first member " Killed in Action " and Australian 

 Zoology lost one of its most promising students. 



The following is a list of the papers published by him : — ■ 

 Description of Austrochaperina, a new genus of 

 Engystomatidae from North Australia. Rec. 

 Austr. Mus., ix., 1, 1912, pp. 87-106, pis. viii-ix. 

 On a Varanus and a Frog from Burnett River, Queens- 

 land, and a Revision of the Variations in Limnody- 

 nastes dorsalis. Rec. Austr. Mus., x., 2, 1913, pp. 

 17-34, pis. i-iii. 



