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knowledge of the country and of the physical development of" 

 the Australian cordillera, Mr. Clarke was able to enlarge 

 upon the relations of the sedimentary and intrusive rocks, and 

 this led to his discovery of the auriferous cjuartzites and 

 detrital accumulations of the mountains within 60 or 80 miles 

 of Sydney. Subsequently the possibility of the great north 

 and south range of New South Wales being highly auriferous 

 was impressed upon him by comparing these mountains with 

 the details of the Oural. Mr. Clarke's last work on the 

 Sedimentary Formations of New South Wales appeared in 

 1875, and in it he had the satisfaction of repeating those 

 acknowledged truths which he had elaborated 30 years since. 

 In 1876 the Council of the Geological Society of London 

 awarded him the Murchison medal and a purse of gold * in 

 recognition of his remarkable services in the investigation of 

 the older rocks of New South Wales, services which have led 

 to a correct knowledge of the succession of the formations in 

 that great country, and which have been of great value to the 

 community.'" 



Allport, Morton, a Vice-President of the Society ; 

 F.L.S., F.Z.S., Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute, 

 Corresponding Member of the Anthropological Institute of 

 Great Britain, Life Member of the Entomological and 

 Malacological Societies, and Foreign Member of the Royal 

 Linnean and Royal Botanic Societies of Belgium, Fellow of 

 the Linnean Society of New South Wales. — Born at West 

 Bromwich in Staffordshire, 1830, died September 10th, 1878. 

 With his parents, he came to this Colony in 1831. From his 

 earliest years he exhibited an ardent, it may be said hereditary, 

 love of Natural History, which had the good fortune to be 

 fostered and directed during his educational training by the 

 Rev. T. J. Ewing, then one of our foremost Naturalists. 

 From these early years the spare hours of his busy 

 professional life (that of Solicitor)" were incessantly devoted 

 to the study of Nature, and being gifted with very keen 

 powers of observation, a most retentive memory, and a 

 physical fi-ame equal to any exertion in exploring expeditions, 

 the result was that his knowledge of the Natural History of 

 Tasmania generally has never, by any one individual, been 

 equalled, and will probably never be surpassed. For 

 the introduction of our now acclimatised SalmonidcB the 

 Colony is largely indebted to his untiring zeal and well- 

 directed energy ; and in past times, when doubts as to the 

 success of the then novel experiment were largely enter- 

 tained, he always felt and expressed the fullest confidence 



