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South London Railway, Central London Railway and other 
tube railways. He took a very active part in many great 
engineering enterprises, and was consulted at all points 
and on many subjects by engineers, public bodies, and 
governments in different parts of the world. He received 
various honours from the universities of the old country, 
was a Fellow of the Royal Society, a past President of the 
Institution of Civil Hngineers, a member of council of the 
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and an Honorary 
Member of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, as well 
as of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He 
also held the dignities of Knight Commander of the orders of 
St. Michael and St. George and of the Bath. 
Lieutenant Colonel R. L. J. Hillery died on January 16th. 
He was for many years Director of Williamstown and 
Melbourne Observatories. Colonel Ellery had a long career 
during which the appliances at the establishments over 
which he presided were enormously improved, and at his 
instigation a four feet reflector was mounted, which at the 
time of its erection was the most powerful instrument of 
its kind in the southern hemisphere. Colonel Hllery’s | 
work was extensive and varied, and he has left a name as 
one of the leading astronomers of the southern hemisphere. 
He retired from the office of director in 1895, but was active 
in the scientific world almost up till the day of his death. 
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1873, and 
he was also a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and 
@ prominent member of many colonial societies and of the 
Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science. 
Sir James Hector, F.R.S., was born on March 16th, 1834. 
He took his degree of M.D. at the Edinburgh University in 
1856 and served as assistant to Hdward Forbes and Sir 
James Simpson. He was appointed to the post of surgeon 
and naturalist to Captain Palliser’s expedition to the Rocky 
