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Mr. Rawlinson was in 1858 a member of the Exploration Com- 

 mittee which prepared and carried out the arrangements for the 

 memorable expedition of Burke and Wills, and at other times he 

 took a prominent part in the schemes of the Society. 



In 1880, when he returned to England, he ceased to be an active 

 member, though still connected with the Society; but he left the 

 colony greatly broken in health, and after a long and tedious illness 

 he died of heart disease, in Lancashire, on the 3rd of February, 

 1882. 



Mr. Eawlinson was one of the few surviving original members ; 

 for nearly thirty years he maintained the same steady interest in its 

 work. His papers were all of them intended to be of only 

 temporary interest, and having done their work they are apt to be 

 forgotten, but their author is worthy of remembrance for his zeal in 

 helping to found and his industry in assisting to maintain a learned 

 society in so small a community as that of Victoria in 1854. 



MR. JOHN FLANAGAN 



Became a member of the Society in May, 1861. He was for some 

 years an active member of the Society, though he never contributed 

 to the Transactions. He was born in 1835, at Manchester, and 

 educated for the profession of architect in Dublin. He had no 

 sooner served his articles than he emigrated to Melbourne, where in 

 1858 he entered into business as an architect. Some of the 

 prominent buildings of the colony were built from his designs. 



In 1871 he won the prize of £200 offered for the best design for 

 the Eastern Market in Melbourne, but the building was not then 

 erected. Five years later, when fresh designs were called for, he 

 declined to compete, on the ground that he had already done so, and 

 been successful. The erection of the building passed into other 

 hands, and Mr. Flanagan suffered severely in health from the 

 disappointment. In September, 1882, he died of consumption, at 

 the comparatively early age of forty-six. 



SIR CHARLES WYYILLE THOMSON 



Was born in 1830. At the early age of twenty-one he became a 

 lecturer on botany in the King's College, Aberdeen. Two years 

 later he accepted the chair of natural history in the Queen's College, 

 Cork. He had scarcely begun his work there, however, when the 



