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the award of the Albert Medal from the Society of Arts. It 

 would be difficult to enumerate all the subjects, artistic, literary, 

 and scientific, that he studied at various periods of his life, for he 

 was a man of wide and versatile tastes. Mineralogy, photography, 

 old prints, and various branches of zoology engaged his attention in 

 turn, and he has left behind some extensive collections, the most 

 important of which, consisting of an unrivalled series of metallur- 

 gical products, have found a resting-place in the collections attached 

 to the School of Mines, with which so much of the work of his life 

 was connected. 



Dr. Percy joined this Society in 1851, and was a member of the 

 Council for three years, from 1853 to 185G. He died June 19th, 

 1889. 



The Eeverend J. E. Tenison Woods, who died at Sydney, N.S.W., 

 on the 9th October, 1889, studied at Oxford, where he was an 

 enthusiastic participant in the Tractarian movement. He joined the 

 Church of Rome, and in 1857 went to Australia for the benefit of 

 his health. He there undertook missionary work, in which he was 

 engaged throughout the remainder of his life, being ultimately 

 appointed Vicar-General of Adelaide. He joined our Society in 

 1859. 



Mr. Woods is the author of numerous papers on Australian 

 geology and palaeontology, the greater number relating to Tertiary 

 fossils ; he also described organic remains from New Guinea, New 

 Caledonia, the Piji Islands, and other parts of the Australasian area. 

 He twice contributed to our Journal, in 1860 and in 1865, both his 

 communications relating to the Tertiary rocks of South Australia. 

 He was also the author of several papers on recent mollusca, of a 

 work in two volumes entitled ' A History of the Discovery and 

 Exploration of Australia,' and of some other books. He was in 1880 

 President of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



Thomas Hawkins, a native of Glastonbury, where he was born in 

 1810, was chiefly known by writings on Enaliosaurians, on which 

 he published two volumes, the best known being ' The Book of the 

 Great Sea-Dragons ' (1840). Mr. Hawkins made several large 

 collections of Ichthyosaurian and Plesiosaurian remains on the 

 Dorsetshire coast, and the finest of these collections was purchased 

 for the British Museum. Other collections were presented by 

 Mr. Hawkins to Cambridge and Oxford. He died at Ventnor, 

 Oct. 15th, having been a Fellow of the Society since 1832. 



