BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE. 



Alexander Walkkh Scott was bom at Bomliay on i\w lOtli Novouilter, 1800, and was tlic secoufl son of Ilolenus Rcott, M.D., 

 bead of tlic Boinltay Modical Staff, and a well-known (•ontril)Utor to medical and scientific literature. He was educated ui Enj^land, 

 graduating at rctorhouse, Camliridge, as B.A. in 1821, and M.A. in 1824. Sliortly afterwards he left England for New South 

 Wales, taking up his residence first in Sydney, but eventually settling u])on Asli Island, on the Lower Hunter Kiver, near 

 Newcastle. He represented various local constituencies in the Legislative Assembly, from 1850 to 1801, when he was appointed 

 a nunubcr of the first Legislative Council under the new constitution. He was a Trustee of the Aiistralian Museum from 1802 to 

 187!), when he resigned in consecjuence of ill health ; as one of the original nieml)ers and sometime President of tlu^ Entomological 

 Society of New South Wales, he contributed various papers on entomological sul)jects to its Transactions, and also to the 

 Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. In 18()4 he published the first three parts of his Australian T.epidojitcra ; and in 

 1873 a treatise on Mammalia, lucent and Extinct (Class Pinnata). He was engaged at the time of his death, which took place at 

 Sydney on November 1st, 1888, upon a Catalogue of the Seals and Whales in the collection of the Australian Museum, 



