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pursued the consideration of this practical question 

 either as the result of his second marriage or as a step 

 leading up- to it. His first wife died at Leipsic in 1901, 

 and in September, 1903, he married Kate Samuels, of 

 Bendigo, Australia, a distinguished operatic singer, 

 known on the stage as Madame Benda. His highly sus- 

 ceptible nature was attracted by her splendid musical 

 qualities, and the double result followed : he married her 

 and took up, with fresh eagerness, a line of study to 

 which he had previously given some attention, and the 

 outcome of his fuller and later researches on the subject 

 we have in the volume mentioned. 



Dr. Wesley Mills early connected himself with the 

 Natural History Society, which was at the height of its 

 prosperity and usefulness about the time he entered upon 

 his public career. He contributed many valuable papers 

 to its transactions, especially in the line of his profes- 

 sional studies ; and the Society showed its appreciation 

 of his scientific attainments, and of the obligations under 

 which he had laid it by his demonstrated interest in its 

 work, by his presence at its meetings and the numerous 

 papers he had read before it, by raising him to the 

 Presidency of the Society in May, 1893, and elected him 

 again to the same office in May, 1894. 



The Natural History Society has been largely be- 

 holden to McGill University, during the last sixty years, 

 for its success as a scientific institution; and not the 

 least of the members of the distinguished staff of the 

 college who have afforded efficient help to it, was Dr. 

 "Wesley Mills. To the last he remained on the list of its 

 Vice-Presidents, and continued to be interested in its 

 work. It was with much regret that the members of the 

 Society learned of the resignation of his professorship 

 on the score of ill-health ; although the hope was enter- 

 tained that the enjoyment of leisure might help his re- 

 covery, and specially that receiving treatment from the 

 most eminent skill which London could afford would 

 result in the re-establishment of his impaired health. 



