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Expedition of 1891. In 1895 he again visited Greymouth 

 for a short time. In the same year he went to" West Aus- 

 tralia on the staff of the Department of Agriculture, where 

 he remained until 1900. Then he came back to Sydney 

 where he has since lived continuously except for a six 

 weeks' visit to New Guinea and Solomon Islands, from 

 which he returned ill and died a week later on July 17th, 

 1914." 



Johnston, Robert Mackenzie (1845-1918). 



Born at Oonnage, Invernesshire, Scotland ; died at 

 Hobart, March 1918. He was Registrar General and 

 Government Statistician of Tasmania for many years, and 

 one of her best known scientific men. In 1893 he published 

 a " Reference list of various books and memoirs on scien- 

 tific and social and on economic subjects, written and 

 published since the year 1873." It contains 102 items. 

 His most important work is a large quarto entitled 

 " Systematic account of the geology of Tasmania." In 

 Natural History subjects he wrote on geology and palaeon- 

 tology, fishes, molluscs and plants. There is an obituary 

 notice, and list of papers contributed to that Society, in 

 " Papers and Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas." for 1918, p. 136, which 

 has 103 items. He died in March 1918. 



Lauterer, Dr. Joseph (1848 — 1911). 



He was born on 18th November, 1848 at Freiburg in 

 Baden, Germany, and died at South Brisbane, 29th July, 

 1911. He served as a surgeon in the Franco-Prussian War. 

 He published " Excursions Flora von Freiburg und seine 

 Umgebung," pp. 224 with 24 text figures, Freiburg, 1874. 

 He arrived in Australia in March 1885, and after residing 

 on the Blue Mountains, N.S.W., he left for Queensland in 

 the following November, and remained there till his death. 

 He interested himself in the vegetation of the neighbour- 



