736 MUELLER MEDALLISTS. 



In publicly presenting the medal to Mr. Etheridge, the President 

 (Professor Orme Masson, F.R.S.) used the following words : — • 



Mr. Etheridge comes from a scientific stock. His father, Mr. Robert 

 Etheridge, F.R.S., was for many years Palaeontologist to the British Museum, 

 and Mr. Etheridge came out to Victoria to join the survey -staff that that 

 State then had under Dr. A. R. C. Selwyn. Mr. Etheridge was engaged 

 in mapping, and surveyed several of the geological quarter-sheets. With 

 the political upheaval of 1878' the survey was swept away by a stroke of 

 the pen on " I31ack Wednesday," and Mr. Etheridge left Australia. 



He was appointed to the Geological Survey of Scotland, and here he 

 met among others his life-long friend, R. L. Jack, formerly Director of the 

 Geological Survey of Queensland. In conjunction with H. A. Nicholson, 

 he wrote several important works on the Silurian fossils of S.W^. Scotland. 



Later on he was appointed to the British Museum, where he had charge 

 of the corals, and in co-operation with Carpenter wrote an important mono- 

 graph on the Blastoidea, an extinct group allied to the sea-urchins. 



About 1888 he was offered the position of Palaeontologist to the N.S.W. 

 Department of Mines and the Australian Museum, and during this period 

 he wrote, with Dr. R. L. Jack, their great work on the Geology and Palaeonto- 

 logy of Queensland. 



In 1893 he resigned his post in the Mines Department and succeeded 

 Dr. E. P. Ramsay as Curator of the Australian Museum, a post he still holds. 



His palaeontological papers are very numerous and deal with the fossils 

 ■of every State in Australia, and with those of Natal. 



He has long worked at the technological side of the Australian blacks, 

 and has written several papers on their implements and weapons. 



Besides this he has compiled several bibliographies on palaeontological 

 and ethnological subjects, which are of the greatest value to students. 



In conjunction with Dr. R. L. Jack he has been awarded the Clarke 

 Memorial Medal by the Royal Society of New South Wales, and he has been 

 elected an honorary member of most of the Australian scientific Societies, 

 and of very many others in various parts of the world. 



The present award has met with the warmest approval of all those 

 familiar with his work. 



