D T. H. HOUGHTON. 



member of the Royal Irish Academy. He died on 16th 

 December 1916. 



Rev. William Scott, born at Hartland, North Devon, in 

 1825, took his B. A. degree at Cambridge University in 1848, 

 taking honours as Third Wrangler at the same time as the 

 late Isaac Todhunter, the well known mathematician. He 

 arrived in the State in 1856, having been selected by the 

 Astronomer Royal for the position of Government Astrono- 

 mer. Early in 1862, Mr. Scott, for health reasons, sent in 

 his resignation as Astronomer, and shortly after took over 

 the old Cook's River collegiate school from the Rev. W. H. 

 Savigny, and in 1865 he was appointed Warden of St. Paul's 

 College within the Sydney University. He was Hon. 

 Secretary of the Royal Society of New South Wales from 

 1867 to 1874, and Treasurer for several years. In 1878 

 Mr. Scott resigned the Wardenship of St. Paul's and entered 

 into parish work in the Goulburn diocese, where he succes- 

 sively held the incumbencies of Gunning, Bungendore, and 

 Queanbeyan, and was appointed a Canon of St. Saviour's 

 Cathedral, and examining Chaplain to the Bishop. After 

 resigning his parochial duties, Mr. Scott revisited England 

 with his wife. He died on 29th March, 1917, at the age 

 of ninety-one years. He was elected a member of the 

 Society in 1856, being before his death the oldest member. 



Mr. John Tebbutt was born in Windsor, New South 

 Wales, on May 25th, 1834, and educated in private schools, 

 his early inclinations being towards mechanical pursuits. 

 His mind was first directed towards the science of 

 astronomy when he was nineteen years old, but it was not 

 until eleven years later that he became possessed of instru- 

 ments with which he could practically test his knowledge, 

 which included a fair grounding in higher mathematics and 

 the theory of astronomical instruments. Mr. Tebbutt may 

 be said to have been the first great Australian bom 



