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construction to the height designed, a course of action 

 which the overflowing of the dam has since proved was 

 correct. The investigation of the whole of the Harbour 

 proposals in connection with the Royal Commission on 

 Decentralisation was made by Mr. Rossbach. He made 

 a special study of his particular branch of the profession 

 and was recognised as one of the most capable Harbour 

 Engineers in the State. In 1891 he was elected an Associ- 

 ate Member of the Institute of Civil Engineers. 



Ben. M. Osborne, j.p., was a member of the Royal 

 Society for twenty-nine years, having joined in 1883. He 

 was born at Marshall Mount, Illawarra, on the 11th August, 

 1837, and died at Hopewood, Bowral, on the 15th January, 

 1912. His life was chiefly devoted to pastoral pursuits, and 

 amongst his various properties were the famous Redbank 

 and Jugiong Estates on the Murrumbidgee. He was 

 possessed of the highest progressive ideas, and expended 

 large sums in improving his stock by importations, which 

 resulted in his horses, cattle and sheep ranking amongst 

 the finest in the State. 



Llewellyn Charles Russell Jones, a well known 

 Sydney Solicitor, who joined this Society in 1884, was born 

 in Sydney in November, 1856. He died at Southport, 

 England, on 13th May, 1912, and was buried at Waverley 

 near Sydney. He greatly interested himself in municipal 

 and political affairs and was elected an alderman of Peter- 

 sham in 1886, which position he held continuously up to 

 the time of his death, being Mayor for several successive 

 years. He represented Petersham in Parliament from 

 1894 to 1898. He occupied a seat on the Board of Directors 

 of several companies, and was also a Director of the Sydney 

 Hospital and of the New South Wales Deaf and Dumb 

 Institution, as well as President of the Cymrodorean 

 Society. A deep interest was taken by him in Masonic 



