1784 
president’s address. 
of his travels, the cost of which the Emperor undertook. He 
returned in 1883, and not long after married Mrs. R. Clarke, a 
daughter of Sir John Robertson. Maclay again left Sydney, and 
for the last time, in 1886. 
He contributed no less than 34 pa|>ers and notes to the 
Proceedings of this Society, which will be found in Yols. iii. 
IV. VI. viii.-x. These are generally very brief but pregnant 
observations. In conjunction with Mr. Macleay he also drew 
up three papers on the “ Plagiostomata of the Pacific,” which 
appeared in Yols. iii. viii. x. respectively. 
The Bibliographical notice at the end of Dr. Finsch’s sketch, 
quoted above, is probably complete for the later portion, but is 
very or quite deficient as regards his earlier works; as, for 
example, his researches in the Calcispongiae,* and his essays on 
the “ Brain of Yertebrates.”f In an obituary notice of Mikluho 
!Maclay which appeared in “Nature,” xxxvii. 597 (1888), it is 
stated that the records of his travels with their rich anthropo- 
logical results are to be found mainly in the Proceedings of the 
Batavia Society, and the Russian Geographical Society. 
It seems right to add that he always disclaimed the title of 
Baron, which somehow or other got prefixed to his name before 
his arrival in Sydney, probably at Hongkong or Singapore. He 
found it, however, impossible to shake it oflT, perhaps owing at 
first to his imperfect English, and finally, I suppo.se, came to 
acquiesce in it as a matter of no importance. 
Dr. Ewan, of Sydney, who became a member in 1882, died in 
England, after an absence of nearly two years from the colony. 
*I find the following quoted by v. Lendenfeld, P.Z.S. 1886, p. 6.33 : — 
1. Ueber Guancha blanca, einen neuen Kalkschwamm. Jen. Z. Nat. 
Bd. IV. 1868. 
2. Ueber einige .Schwamme des nordlichen .Stillen Oceans u.s.w. 
M6m. Ac. Petersb. S^r. 7, tom. xv. 1870. 
3. .Schwammfauna des Weissen Meeres, und des Arktisches Oceans. 
Bull. Ac. Petersb. tom. xv. 1871. 
t Beitraje zur. vergl. Neurol. Das Gehim d. .Selachier, Ganoiden, u. 
Teleosteen Leipz. 1870, 4to. 
