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and from that time onwards Australia was his home. In 1859 he 

 was appointed to the Geological Survey of Victoria, under Mr. 

 Selwyn, but the service was disbanded before he had been long on 

 the staff. In 1874 he was appointed Geological Surveyor to the 

 Department of Lands, New South Wales, and next year, when the 

 Geological Survey of that Colony was transferred to the Department 

 of Mines, he was appointed Government Geologist for New South 

 Wales, an office which he filled until his death. 



He was elected a Fellow of this Society in 1876, and of the 

 Linnean Society in 1881 ; he was President of the Linnean Society 

 of New South Wales in 1884, and of the Royal Society of New 

 South Wales in 1888. His numerous geological and other scientific 

 writings are chiefly to be found in the official Reports. A list of 

 his papers is given in the Australian Catalogue of Messrs. Etheridge 

 and Jack. He added greatly to our knowledge of the geology of 

 parts of Victoria and New South Wales. His last paper was an 

 excellent Summary of the Mineral Resources of the latter Colony, 

 published in the Journal of the Society of Arts in September 1891. 



Mr. Thomas Pallister Barkas was born on March 5th, 1819, at 

 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in which city he resided till his death on 

 July 10th last. Succeeding his father as a builder, he continued the 

 business from 1833 to 1843. The next two years he devoted to 

 lecturing on various scientific subjects, — a practice which he con- 

 tinued indeed more or less throughout later life, insomuch that he 

 is estimated to have given at least 3000 gratuitous lectures. From 

 1845 to 1870 he carried on business as a bookseller ; in the latter 

 year he opened the Art Gallery and News Room, which he managed 

 till his death. 



Being from early life much interested in science, he, about the 

 year 1868, became especially attracted by geology, and began col- 

 lecting remains of fishes and reptiles from the Northumberland Coal 

 Measures, as had been so well done before him by Mr. Thos. 

 Atthey, of Cramlington. Aided as he was by the men and boys 

 at the pits, his collection soon became large. He published from 

 time to time notices and descriptions of his various discoveries, but 

 the results were summed up in his ' Atlas of Carboniferous Eossils' 

 and ' Illustrated Guide,' both published in 1873. He was elected a 

 Fellow of this Society in 1869. 



By the death of Joseph Leidy our list of Foreign Members has 



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