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until now as the standard reference on these rocks as they 

 occur in Ireland. Another paper, communicated to the 

 Geological Society and published in their quarterly journal, 

 dealt with the zone of Ammonites angulatus, a section of the 

 lower lias. Let no one imagine that such papers as these are 

 easy of accomplishment. They require long and patient work, 

 combined with much insight derived from a previous know- 

 ledge of the rocks as they occur in other districts, such as 

 very few possess. He also read a paper on the middle lias of 

 County Antrim. Of this obscure subject nothing more is 

 known at the present time. After Mr. Tate's engagement 

 was ended here, he held an appointment as assistant secretary 

 to the Geological Society of London, from thence he went to 

 Central America as mining surveyor in Nicaragua. He paid 

 considerable attention to terrestrial conchology while there, 

 and published an account of the shells met with. A good 

 collection of plants was also made, but, unfortunately, they 

 were destroyed or rendered useless by damp during the rainy 

 season of that country. Mr. Tate's stay m America was not 

 long, and shortly after his return to London he was appointed 

 to the Chair of Natural Science in the University of Adelaide, 

 South Australia. This professorship he held until his decease. 

 The wide field of research which Professor Tate now saw 

 before him in a region where so much was almost virgin 

 ground for the naturalist, must have been an intense stimulus 

 to such a man. Here he set to work in earnest, and every year 

 papers were produced dealing with some aspects either of the 

 geology, botany, or conchology of the country. I have a list 

 of eighty-five of these papers communicated to the Royal 

 Society of Australia. This, however, only covers the period 

 from 1881 until the present; further back I have not had 

 access to the sources of information. Professor Tate succeeded 

 in establishing a Naturalists' Field Club in Adelaide. He 

 was its first President, and up to the close its most active 

 supporter. He was President of the Australian Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, when it met, eight years ago, 

 in Adelaide. Australian science has suffered severe losses 



