4 T. H. HOUGHTON. 



Colonel Dr. James Froude Flashman, who was born at 

 Braid wood in 1870, and educated at the Sydney High 

 School and Sydney University. For some years he held 

 the office of Senior Medical Officer and Pathologist, first 

 at Parramatta and afterwards at Callan Park Hospital 

 for the Insane. He then became Pathologist and Lecturer 

 at the University, where he was much esteemed by all with 

 whom he came in contact, especially the young students, 

 for whom he always had much sympathy. All through his 

 life he was much attached to military matters, and was 

 the leader of the University Scout movement. Of late 

 years, after resigning his position at Callan Park, he 

 entered upon private practice, and succeeded in securing 

 a large practice, and was particularly successful in treat- 

 ing many complicated diseases. On the outbreak of war 

 he offered his services as medical officer and was immedi- 

 ately sent to England, and placed in charge of No. & 

 Hospital at Wandsworth, chiefly used for Australian 

 wounded. Afterwards he was transferred to France to- 

 take charge of the hospital at Boulogne, where he con- 

 tracted pneumonia and died on 12th February, 1917. He 

 was elected a member of the Society in 1900. 



Mr. Walter George Pye was born in England and 

 came out to New Zealand when quite young; he graduated 

 B.A. in 1893, M.A. in 1894, and B.Sc. in 1895 at the 

 University of New Zealand, taking high honours both in 

 languages and literature and science. On leaving the 

 University he was for some time engaged in educational 

 work in the secondary schools of the State and elsewhere, 

 but subsequently entered the profession of journalism in 

 which most of his life-work was done. He wrote the 

 "Review" columns of the Sydney Morning Herald for 

 many years, and endowed them with personality and dis- 

 tinction, the gift of epigram being peculiarly his own. He 



