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known ' Records of the Geological Survey,' and published from 

 time to time important memoirs on the fossils of the older rocks. 

 At the Museum, Etheridge threw himself with his wonted vigour 

 into the arrangement and display of the collections, and founded 

 the ' Records of the Australian Museum.' Through his efforts, 

 also, a tine series of ethnological exhibits from the Pacific Islands 

 was accumulated, and a magnificent display of native work was 

 installed in the Museum galleries. 



Etheridge received the Clarke Memorial Medal from the Royal 

 Society of New South Wales in 1895, and the Mueller Memorial 

 Medal from the Australian Association for the Advancement of 

 Science in 1911. His name is widely known, not only from the 

 various fossils that have been named after him, but also from the 

 Antarctic glacier, the lofty peak on the Kosciusko Plateau, and 

 the Etheridge Goldfield in North Queensland. His colleagues 

 will cherish his memory as that of a sound and untiring worker, 

 and a man always ready to help his fellows. [F. A. B.] 



It is incumbent upon me also to speak in memory of Alex- 

 ander McHenrt, who, although not a Fellow of this Society, 

 was a contributor to our Journal, and well known personally to 

 many of us ; while the value of his work was recognized by the 

 Council in 1901 by the Awaid of a moiety of the Lyell Fund. 

 Born at Ballycastle (Antrim), in 1841, McHenry, while living 

 in Dublin in his youth, had his interest in geology aroused by the 

 evening lectures of Beete Jukes, who, finding an apt student, 

 obtained for him in 1861 the post of Specimen-Collector on the 

 Geological Survey in Ireland. In the course of his duties he 

 accpiired a far-reaching knowledge of Irish rocks and fossils, which' 

 continued to increase throughout his career. In 1S77 he was 

 promoted to be Assistant-Geologist, and to the rank of Geologist 

 in 1890. He took part in mapping the difficult granitic and 

 metamorphic rocks in North-West Mayo, and worked later on the 

 similar complex in Donegal. At other times he Avas engaged on 

 the Devonian and Carboniferous rocks of Cork and Kerry, and on 

 the Ballycastle district and other areas in County Antrim. On 

 the completion of the primary 1-inch map of Ireland, he was 

 occupied with Prof. W. W. Watts in a revision of some of 

 the tracts of igneous and gneissose rocks, and with Mr. J. R. 

 Kilroe in tracing the division between Silurian and Ordovician in 

 the country generally. The ' Guide to the Collection of Rocks 



