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Obituary — C. 8. Wilkinson. 



Society of the Colony. His lengthened experience in practical 

 geology and mining, and his scholarly attainments, united to a 

 modest demeanour, gained for him a wide circle of friends both at 

 home and in the Colonies. For seventeen years Mr. Wilkinson was 

 a member of all Commissions for the Colony, in connexion with 

 International and Inter- colonial Exhibitions, and he took a prominent 

 pai't in preparing the collections showing the mineral resources of 

 the Colony. He was also mainly responsible for the excellent 

 collection of minerals in the Mining Museum at Sydney. 



Mr. Wilkinson represented his Government as Geological Director 

 of the New South Wales Eoyal Commission at the Mining Exhibition 

 held at the Crystal Palace in the autumn of last year. 



He was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of London in 

 1876, and a Fellow of the Linnaean Society in 1881. 



Note. — This Notice and the accompanying portrait of Mr. C. S. Wilkinson are 

 reproduced, by the kind permission of the Editor, from the "Mining Journal" 

 October 17, 1891.— Edit. Geol. Mag. 



