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Scholarship in geology, and afterwards carried off the liadclitfe 

 Travelling Fellowship in medicine. He took the degree of M.B. 

 in 1868, and next year became Professor of Hygiene and Public 

 Health at University College, London. It was in that department 

 of applied science that he spent the remaining years of his strenuous 

 life, attaining in it a high position. Though thus led away from 

 the strictly-geological domain, he always retained his early interest 

 in our science, and availed himself of his opportunities of showing 

 the connection of geological structure with questions of sanitation. 



Sir Charles Xicholsox, who died on the 8th of November last, 

 in his 94th year, became a Fellow of this Society as far back as 

 1841. After graduating in Medicine with high honours at the 

 University of Edinburgh, he went at the age of twenty-five to 

 Australia, where an uncle had acquired some property near Sydney, 

 and where he wished to ascertain whether he could himself settle. 

 Having decided to cast in his lot with the fortunes of the young- 

 colony, he at first devoted himself with ardour and success to the 

 medical profession. Thereafter he acquired a partnership in a 

 sheep-station, and was gradually drawn into active participation 

 in all the social and political development of the community. He 

 became a member of the first Legislative Assembly of Xew South 

 Wales, and took such a leading part in its deliberations that he was 

 thrice elected Speaker of the Chamber. His interest in educational 

 progress was especially deep and enlightened. He had an active 

 share in the foundation of the University of Sydney, and was for a 

 number of years the Chancellor of that flourishing institution, 

 endowing it with many valuable gifts, some of which — such as the 

 collection of Egyptian antiquities, which he himself made in Egypt — 

 had a high educational value. He eventually returned to this 

 country, and spent the latter years of his life at the Grange, 

 Totteridge, Hertfordshire. He was knighted in 1852, and in 1859 

 was made a Baronet. Those who were privileged with his friendship 

 will cherish the memory of his kindly face, his keen appreciation of 

 humour, and his interest in everything relating to scientific and 

 educational progress. 



John Allen Browx will be long remembered for the unwearied 

 enthusiasm of his investigations of the Palaeolithic gravels of 

 Middlesex. Born in 1831, he succeeded his father as a diamond- 

 merchant. At first, his tastes appear to have been rather 



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