BY R. HAMLYN-HARRIS. S 



With the death of Mr. D. O'Connor in his 9l8t year, 

 rhe kSociety lost a keen and faithful member. Mr. 

 O'Connor took an active interest ahnost to the last in all 

 the affairs of the community. He was an enthusiastic 

 amateur gardener, and one of liis hobbies was fish culture. 

 He spent much time and money in trjdng to introduce 

 choice and edible fishes into Queensland waters. He 

 made more than one attempt to accUmatize trout and 

 salmon, obtaining ova and young fish from Tasmania and 

 New Zealand. He personally visited the Dawson Waters 

 and obtained specimens of the remarkable Neoceratodus 

 forsteri, and undertook to carry these specimens to 

 England, and so successful was he that he deUvered his 

 charges alive to the Zoological Societj' of London, in whose 

 gardens, I believe, they are still to be seen. 



Mr. O'Connor contri bitted the following papers to the 

 Royal Society of Queensland : — 



(1) Vol. iii., 1887, p. 139, • On "Fish AccUmatisation 



in Queensland." 



(2) Vol. iii.. 1887, p. 141, " On the Occurrence of 



Ghanos salmoneus in Moreton Bay." 



(3) Vol. xii., 1897, p. 101, " Report on Preservation of 



Ceratodus." 



(4) Vol. xii., 1897, p. 108, " Fish AccUmatisation in 



Queensland." 



The first paper gives an account of Mr. O'Connor's 

 visit to Ballarat, where he obtained 100 small fishes (perch, 

 trout, carp and tench), and his journey home with them, 

 resulting in the Uberation in the Gold Creek Reservoir 

 of 3() perch, 15 trout, 3 carp and 3 tench. The second 

 records the capture of 4 '" Moreton Bay Salmon," a common 

 fish here. The third gives an account of the liberation of 

 a number of specimens of the "Queensland Lungfish " — 

 {Neoceratodus forsteri), in certain Queensland waters, 

 namely — North Pine, 8 : Lagoon near the Albert River, 

 5 ; Dam communicating with Brisbane River, 8 ; 

 Enoggera Reservoir, 18 ; Condamine at Warwick, 21 ; 

 Upper Coomera, 16 ; Botanical Gardens, 2. This paper 

 is useful as a record. 



