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  OBITUARY 
  NOTICE. 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  with 
  much 
  regret 
  we 
  have 
  to 
  record 
  the 
  death 
  of 
  William 
  

   Totnpson 
  Hednall. 
  He 
  was 
  born 
  at 
  Leicester 
  in 
  August, 
  1838, 
  and 
  

   educated 
  at 
  tlie 
  Philological 
  School, 
  London. 
  His 
  first 
  employment 
  

   was 
  at 
  the 
  Jerrayn 
  Street 
  Museum 
  of 
  Practical 
  Geology, 
  then 
  under 
  

   the 
  direction 
  of 
  Sir 
  H. 
  B. 
  De 
  La 
  Beche. 
  

  

  In 
  1853 
  he 
  emigrated 
  to 
  Australia 
  and 
  entered 
  the 
  service 
  of 
  the 
  

   Register, 
  a 
  prominent 
  newspaper 
  of 
  Adelaide, 
  Soutli 
  Australia. 
  .In 
  

   1874 
  he 
  edited 
  a 
  paper 
  at 
  Port 
  Darwin 
  in 
  the 
  Northern 
  Territory. 
  

   But 
  after 
  two 
  years 
  in 
  the 
  Tropics 
  he 
  returned 
  to 
  tlie 
  Register, 
  upon 
  

   which 
  he 
  was 
  engaged 
  till 
  his 
  retirement 
  in 
  1908. 
  For 
  several 
  years 
  

   his 
  health 
  was 
  delicate, 
  and 
  he 
  died 
  on 
  July 
  25, 
  1915, 
  in 
  his 
  

   77th 
  year, 
  leaving 
  a 
  family 
  of 
  one 
  married 
  daughter 
  and 
  three 
  sons. 
  

  

  All 
  his 
  life 
  he 
  was 
  an 
  enthusiastic 
  conchologist. 
  He 
  is 
  associated 
  

   with 
  two 
  splendid 
  species 
  which 
  lie 
  discovered 
  in 
  the 
  Northern 
  

   Territory, 
  Valuta 
  bednalli 
  and 
  Murex 
  hediialli. 
  Besides 
  these 
  two, 
  of 
  

   which 
  he 
  was 
  especially 
  proud, 
  the 
  specific 
  bednalli 
  was 
  adopted 
  for 
  

   Australian 
  members 
  of 
  the 
  following 
  genera 
  : 
  Acanthochites, 
  Chiton, 
  

   Drillia, 
  Epidromis, 
  Helix, 
  Pecten, 
  Trigonia, 
  and 
  Unio. 
  For 
  many 
  

   j'sars 
  he 
  was 
  honorary 
  curator 
  in 
  Conchology 
  to 
  his 
  State 
  Museum. 
  

  

  He 
  was 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  founders 
  of 
  the 
  lloyal 
  Society 
  of 
  South 
  

   Australia, 
  to 
  the 
  publications 
  of 
  which 
  he 
  contributed 
  six 
  articles 
  on 
  

   Australian 
  MoUusca. 
  His 
  best 
  work 
  was 
  an 
  article 
  on 
  the 
  Polyplaco- 
  

   phora 
  of 
  South 
  Australia 
  in 
  the 
  ' 
  Proceedings 
  of 
  the 
  Malacological 
  

   Society 
  of 
  London' 
  (vol. 
  ii, 
  1897, 
  pp. 
  139-59, 
  pi. 
  xii 
  and 
  figs.). 
  His 
  

   last 
  conchological 
  paper, 
  also 
  on 
  Polyplacophora, 
  written 
  in 
  association 
  

   with 
  E. 
  H. 
  V. 
  Matthews, 
  appeared 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  journal 
  (vol. 
  vii, 
  

   1906, 
  pp. 
  91-2, 
  pi. 
  ix). 
  

  

  C. 
  Hedley. 
  

  

  