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Joseph Milligan, born in Dumfrieshire, 1807, died in 

 London, 1884. Obtained Diploma of the R.C.S., Edinburgh, 

 1829. Appointed Surgeon, in 1830, to the Van Diemen's 

 Land Company at Surrey Hills, wheie he remained 10 or 12 

 years. Was then, by Sir John Franklin, appointed Inspector 

 of Convict Discipline, and subsequently Superintendent of the 

 Aborigines, which position he held from 1843 to 1855, with 

 the interval of one year, 1846-7, when he ])roceeded to Mac- 

 quarie Harbour in charge of a large party of convicts. He 

 was Secretary to the Royal Society from about 1847 to 1859, 

 when he returned to England, where he acted as Commissioner 

 for Tasmania at the Exhibition of 1862. During his long rale 

 over the Aborigines he compiled a valuable Vocabulary of their 

 language, which was published by the Royal Society. 



Other Members who had died during the year were the 

 Hon. Thomas Daniel Chapman, M.E.C., President of the 

 Legislative Council, and Mr. Henry John Buckland. 



