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Surface," and the other " On the Adaptation of the Eye to the 

 Nature of the Kays which Emanate from Bodies." The Society 

 soon after lost his services, as he returned to England to enter upon 

 his subsequent brilliant scientific career, the leading achievements of 

 which are epitomised by Prof. P. G. Tait in " Nature " for the 

 29th December last. Some twenty years before his death he was 

 severely injured in a railway accident, from the efiects of which 

 he never completely recovered. Professor Tait knew him better, 

 it is presumed, than any one in Australia, and he concludes his 

 notice thus : — " Of the man himself I cannot trust myself to 

 speak. What I could say will easily be divined by those who 

 knew him intimately, and to those who did not know him, I am 

 unwilling to speak in terms which, to them, must certainly appear 

 exaggerated." 



