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The Society has been deprived by Death of the following Members 
during the Year. 
Prrer Drqraves, Esq., a Member of the Society since 1845, arrived in 
Van Diemen’s Land in 1824, and died, after a short illness, on the 31st 
December last, at an advanced age. Mr. Degraves gave, in early life, a 
good deal of attention to the study of chemistry, and he was an able practical 
engineer ; his factory in Manchester was lighted up with coal gas two or 
three years before its introduction into London. Soon after his arrival in 
1824, Mr. Degraves settled at the Cascades, where he constructed his saw- 
mills, and in 1834 added a flour-mill, both worked by hydraulic engines, for 
which steam was substituted in 1849. In 1845 Mr. Degraves became also 
a ship-builder, and sent afloat from his yards here the following vessels, 
all built of the Blue Gum of Tasmania :— 
Tasman......... 565 Tons. ITTY - concpadss 400 Tons. 
Derwent ...... 408 ,, Lady Emma 250 __,, 
Jenny Lind ...137__,, Melbourne... 149 __,, 
pYiaitreiieee eee UB) 3 Portland...... 97 ,, 
and the steamer Bendigo...... 14 
besides other vessels of lower tonnage. Men who add to ability great 
practical skill, and to a spirit of enterprise, active industrious habits and a 
sound judgment, will generally prove, as Mr. Degraves has done, successful 
men of business, and, under any circumstances, most valuable members of a 
new community. 
Gamatiex Burier, Esg., several years a Member of this Society, after 
having partially recovered from an attack of paralysis, was rather suddenly 
carried off on the ist February, 1852. 
Cuartes Sean, Esq., an extensive ship-owner of the Port of Hobart 
Town, died on the 9th November, 1852. Mr. Seal had only recently 
been elected into the Society. 
Masor James Wintiam Henry Watcnu, served twenty-six years in 
H.M. 80th Regt., and nineteen years in H.M. 54th Regt., passed twenty- 
eight years in India, served the campaign in Travancore in 1809, and that 
in Ava in 1824 and 1825; died here, after a tedious illness, on the 24th 
March, 1852. Major Walch was some years a Member of this Society 
and a contributor to its Museum. 
Wititam Kermopy, Esq., late a Member of the Legislature of Tasmania, 
a Member of this Society from its commencement, an enterprising Colonist, 
and a distinguished Member and warm supporter of the Midland Agricul- 
tural Association, died at an advanced period of life, at his residence, Mona 
Vale, on the 3rd of August, 1852. 
T. J. Lemprters, Esq., A.C.G., long resident in this colony, was ordered 
home in 1850, and afterwards stationed at Hong Kong, which he was obliged 
to leave from sickness, and died, on his passage to England, at Aden, 6th 
January, 1852. Mr. Lempriere is well known for the numerous contribu- 
tions which he made to the Ichthyology of Tasmanian Seas in the shape 
of Specimens sent to Sir John Richardson, M.D., F.R.S., &c., and described 
by him in the “ Linnzan Transactions,” “Tasmanian Journal,” ‘“ Pro- 
ceedings of the Zool. Society of London,” &c. 
