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We also deplore the loss of our printer, Mr. Frederick 

 Williams White, who had been associated with us for nearly 

 half a century. He was also recognised in the trade as 

 Sydney's oldest printer. He printed some of the sheets of 

 our Vol. I, when we were the Philosophical Society, 

 although the volume bears the imprint of Messrs. Reading 

 and Wellbank. 



As an editor of our volume for many years, I take the 

 opportunity of testifying that he patiently bore with the 

 vagaries of both authors and editors; he looked upon him- 

 self as to some extent an officer of the Society, and his 

 relations with us were not entirely of a business character. 

 As far as the oldest member of the Society can look back, 

 we have only had one printer, and I record with gratitude 

 his valuable services to the Society. 



It is not generally known that he was more identified 

 with Sydney's early scientific printing than any other man. 

 He was printer of the old Horticultural Magazine in the 

 early sixties; he was printer to the Linnean Society of 

 New South Wales for a number of years, while he has 

 printed for the Australian Museum a fine series of publica- 

 tions. I also bear testimony to the fact that his recreation 

 was gardening, and that he had an accurate knowledge of 

 our native flora, being a systematic visitor to the Botanic 

 Gardens when his place of business was in William Street. 



He was born at Taunton, Somersetshire, England, 19th 

 September, 1832, was attracted to the Australian goldfields 

 in 1853, having as fellow- voyagers Messrs. Burke and Wills, 

 afterwards explorers, and Thomas Mcll wraith, afterwards 

 Premier of Queensland. Gold mining not proving a success, 

 he very soon settled down to his trade as printer in Sydney, 

 becoming a master printer in 1857 in William Street. He 

 died at Rockdale, near Sydney, 2nd September, 1911. 



