142 OBITUARY.. 



1905. 



100. Observations regarding some Economic Aspects of 

 the Eisenach Social Equality Programme. 



1908. 



101. State Borrowing and Sinking Funds. 



1918. ■ 



102. Observations regarding Accumulated Cripital and 

 Wealth. 



103. Notes en the discovery of a new Fossil Fruit from 

 the Deep-lead Tin Drifts at Derby, Tasmania. 



Colonel W. V. Lbgge. 



Colonel W. Y . Legge was born at Cullenswood, Tas- 

 mauia, seventy-eight years ago. He went to England as 

 a child, and was educated both there and in France^ and 

 G-ermany. He obtained his Commission in the Royal 

 Artillery in 1862, and served for 5 years. In 1867 and 1868 

 he was in Melbourne with the Imperial trot. ps. Ijpon 

 their withdrawal, he went to Ceylon, and it was while ire 

 V7as there that he did all the collecting and much of the 

 MSS. of his standard work on "The Birds of Ceylon." 

 Leaving Ceylon in 1877 he returned to England, and 

 served at Portsmoiath. In 1883 he was offered, and ac- 

 cepted, the command of the Tasmaniaai Forces. Except for 

 several short periods he held this command until 1902. 

 During this time considerable re-organisation was effected. 

 Colonel Legge was an active member of the Society for 

 many years, his chief interest being ornithology. In 

 addition he was generally interested in the fauna and 

 flora of the island, and was an authority upon forestry. 

 He was instrumental in having investigations carried out 

 by members of this Society concerning the height of cer- 

 tain peaks on Ben Lomond. The result went to show that 

 one of them, Legge Tor, is the highest point in Tasmania. 



Papers contributed to the Royal Society of Tasmania 

 by the late Colonel W. V. Legge. 



1873. 



1. On the Weaver Bird (Ploreus hayn) in Ce3don. . 



1874. 



2. Notes on some species of Tasmanian Birds. 



