viii MEMOIR 



Australasian Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, and in that capacity he delivered an address 

 at Hobart, Tasmania, in January, 1902, which forms 

 part of the present volume. In 1904 he was 

 unanimously elected the first President of the Board 

 of Governors of the New Zealand Institute. In 

 March, 1905, he left New Zealand on board the 

 s.s. " Rimutaka " on a first visit to the old country 

 after an absence of nearly forty years, and he died 

 on board the same boat on the return journey 

 within a few hours sail of Cape Town, and was 

 buried at sea, October 27th, in lat. 30 6' S., long. 

 16 52' E. 



In the year 1861, when he became a Fellow of the 

 Geological Society, he was among the first to recog- 

 nise the significance of Charles Darwin's, w^ork on 

 the " Origin of Species," and his review of it in the 



Geologist ' ' elicited from the author a letter which 

 is printed in the abridged edition of Darwin's ' 'Life" 

 (1892) p. 250. He was elected a corresponding 

 member of the Zoological Society of London in 

 1872, and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1892. 

 At various dates he became a corresponding member 

 of numerous learned societies on the Continent of 

 Europe, in the Colonies and in America. His life 

 was mostly spent in scientific research, and the 

 accuracy of his observations and the tenacity of his 

 memory made his judgment of the greatest value 

 in the identification of specimens. The skeletons 

 of the extinct moa in many European museums are 

 from his hand, and were sent out in exchange for 

 desiderata for his own museum. 



