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lie became Surveyor General, with participation in the legislative 

 affairs of his State, at that time a Crown Colony ; and when repre- 

 sentative government was granted in 1890, he was chosen to be 

 its first Premier. This position he continued to hold until the 

 federation in 1901. when he took office in the Commonwealth 

 ■Government as Postmaster General, and during the rest of his 

 career played an outstanding part in the political and administrative 

 life of the Commonwealth. He was a strenuous advocate for the 

 building of the great Transcontinental Railway which now links 

 Western Australia to the Eastern states, and its completion during 

 his lifetime gave him intense gratification. His manifold services 

 to the Commonwealth and Empire brought him many honours : 

 K.C.M.G in 1891 ; G.C.M.G. in 1901; P.C.; LL.D. of Cambridge, 

 Perth, and Adelaide ; and in 1918 he was created a Baron of the 

 United Kingdom, being the first Australian peer. He died at sea 

 ■on September 3rd last, at the age of 71, leaving a widow but no 

 children. 



Forrest was a big man, physically and mentally ; genial and 

 practical. With an air of broad spaces about him, he struck the 

 imagination as^a fitting representative of the Island- Continent. 



Sir William Heerlein Lixdley, eminent as a civil engineer, 

 was elected a Fellow in 1877, and died on December 30th, 1917, 

 .at the age of 64. He spent most of his life in professional 

 work on the Continent, principally in Germany and Austria, where 

 he was associated with many great public works for water-supply, 

 •drainage, etc. He rendered considerable service to the Poyal 

 Commission on Canals & Inland Navigation by preparing an 

 exhaustive report on the waterways of France, Belgium, Germany, 

 and Holland, which*was published as a Blue book. In recognition 

 of the value of this work he received the honour of knighthood in 

 1911. 



Ivor Thomas was born on November 21th, 1877, and became a 

 Fellow of this Society in 1906. Commencing his career as a 

 teacher at the Glanamman Council School, he afterwards graduated 

 with honours at Aberystwyth. After a short period devoted to 

 teaching, he proceeded to Germany, where he studied geology and 

 palaeontology under Prof. Emanuel Kayser. Thomas returned to 

 this country in 1905, a graduate of Marburg University, and was 

 appointed to the staff of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. 

 There he was attached "to the Palaeontological Department until 



