IN MEMORIAM. 
SIR, W. E. MAXWELL, K. C. M. G. 
Since its foundation in 1877, the Society has never sustained 
such a severe loss as that caused by the death of Sir William 
Max well, late governor of the Gold Coast. 
f his distinguished official career in this colony a very 
brief sketch will here suffice. From 1855 to 1869, he was 
employed in the Supreme Court, his father, Sir P. Banton Max- 
well, being Chief Fie of the Colony. In 1867 he qualified as an 
advocate of the local bar, and for some years was a magistrate 
and commissioner of the Court of Request, acting for a short time 
as а judge of the Supreme Court of Penang. His legal attain- 
ments were of a high order, and qualified him to take the 
important part he did in the work of legislation, especially with 
regard to the Land question, to which he devoted his great abil- 
ities, 
ointed in 1874 Assistant Government Agent, Province 
ministration. In the following year the Perak war took place, 
Resident, Perak, and it was during this period he gained his inti- 
mate knowledge of the Malays of the country—their language 
and folklore. In 1881 he was called to the bar (Inner Temple), 
and for some years after this, as Commissioner of land titles, he 
which, started first in the Colony, has been reproduced with 
