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Col. Egerton Warburton, who, although he never claimed to be 

 a scientific man in the ordinary meaning of the term, yet possessed 

 the qualities that belong to all imbued with the truly scientific 

 spirit, namely, a love for truth and knowledge, enthusiasm in its 

 pursuit, and untiring energy towards its acquisition. 



Rev. J. E. Tenison- Woods, F.L.S., F.G.S. — No heavier loss 

 has this year befallen the Scientific Societies of Australasia than 

 the death of this naturalist. Not only was he one of the fore- 

 most Australasian naturalists, but to very many of us he was 

 far more as a dear personal friend, a delightful companion, and a 

 skilled adviser. He was born in 1832, was ordained in the 

 Catholic faith in 1856, and spent a few years in charge of a pas- 

 toral diocese in the south-east of this colony. Since then his minis- 

 terial duties led him to Tasmania and New South Wales. In 1883, 

 he visited Singapore and the Malay Peninsula, and subsequently 

 passed through the Phillipines, Java, Borneo, and the Northern 

 Territory of South Australia, returning to Sydney in 1886 ; but 

 during that expedition he contracted a malarial disease, which 

 terminated fatally towards the end of last year. Though at all 

 times a scientific enthusiast, he was nevertheless the devoted 

 priest, and as a preacher he was acknowledged to be singularly 

 earnest and powerful — his fine presence and elocutionary power 

 intensifying his influence. As a scientist his life became a part 

 of the scientific progress and history of Australasia, labouring 

 with equally good results in Geology, Botany, Palaeontology and 

 Zoology. He was honoured by all the leading Scientific Societies 

 of Australasia ; and at an early period of his scientific career 

 became a Fellow of the Geological and Linnean Societies of Lon- 

 don. He was awarded the Clarke-Medal of the Royal Society 

 of New South Wales, and gained one of the same Society's medal 

 for his remarkable paper on the presence of visual organs in the- 

 test of certain Mollusca. His early scientific work was the out- 

 come of his residence in the South-East ; and his pioneer geological 

 work is in the form of an octavo volume, published in 1862,, 

 entitled "Geological Observations in South Australia." In 1865^ 

 and 1866, he communicated four papers to the Adelaide Philo- 

 sophical Society on the Geology and Palaeontology of the Tertiary 

 Rocks of South Australia. He lent valuable aid to this Society 

 at a critical period of its career by infusing a higher scientific- 

 character to its proceedings ; four papers adorned the pages of 

 the first three volumes of its Transactions. In 1877, this Society 

 elected him an Honorary Fellow. He is botanically commemor- 

 ated by StyjjlieJia Woodsii, F. v. Mueller, zoologically by Thalotia 

 Woodsiana, Angas, palseontologically by Echinus Woodsii, Laube, 

 Pcdfvoseris Woodsii, Duncan, Triton Woodsii, Marginella Woodsii,. 

 Cyliclina Woodsii, Leda Woodsii, Terehratella Woodsii, and 



