4 ' E. C. ANDREWS. 
Zealand, on the 5th January, 1841, his father being the late 
Rev. B. Quaife, Presbyterian Minister. Dr. Quaife came 
to New South Wales at the age of three years. He wasone 
of the earliest graduates of the University of Sydney, and 
obtained the degree of M.A. in 1862. There was no Medical 
School in Sydney at that time, and he attended the lectures. 
at the University of Glasgow, whence he obtained the 
degrees of M.D. and Master of Surgery in 1867. He was 
registered as a medical practitioner under the N.S.W. | 
Medical Practitioners Act on the 5th January, 1869. Prior 
to 1880, and for many years afterwards, he practised as a 
physician at ‘‘ Hughenden,’’ Queen Street, Woollahra. He 
was one of the original members of the New South Wales 
Branch of the British Medical Association which was. 
established in 1880. He was President for the year 1884 — 
1885. Hewasa member of the N.S.W. Medical Board, that 
is the Statutory Board under the Medical Practitioners Act 
of N.S.W., from 1894 to 1915. Apart from his medical 
practice he was an enthusiast in many branches of science 
and art, especially, Optics, Electricity, Astronomy, and 
Music. He had a laboratory at Woollahra where he con- 
ducted numerous electrical experiments, and he possessed 
one of the earliest Rontgen Ray apparatus in the State, 
which was used during the South African War. He was. 
engaged in experimental work in Optics until the time of 
his death. He was an active member of the Astronomical 
Society, being interested especially in the spectroscopic 
phenomena of the stars. He was associated intimately 
with the advancement of Music in N.S. Wales, being a 
member both of the Sydney Amateur Orchestral Society 
and of the Royal Philharmonic Society. Dr. Quaife will be 
long remembered in the Royal Society by reason of his 
charming personality, his extreme kindness, and his benefits 
to this Society of a material nature. One of these, namely, 
