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and Mexico. For a paper written in 1867 for the Paris 

 Exhibition, on "The State and Progress of Astronomy in 

 New South Wales," he was awarded a commemorative 

 silver medal. In 1873 Mr. Tebbutt was elected a Fellow 

 of the Royal Astronomical Society, though his contribu- 

 tions had been published by the Society for eleven years 

 preceding that date. He was the recognised discoverer of 

 two of the most remarkable comets of the last century, the 

 1861 comet having been observed by him six weeks before 

 it was discovered in Europe; the other was the great comet 

 of 1881. His comet work finds a place in several well 

 known astronomical monographs. Concurrently, Mr. 

 Tebbutt conducted extensive meteorological observations. 

 His work in this connection from 1863 to 1896 has been 

 published, but at the close of 1897 Mr. Tebbutt discontinued 

 these observations, leaving himself free in his declining 

 years to continue his purely astronomical work. In 1895 

 Mr. Tebbutt was elected the first President of the New 

 South Wales branch of the British Astronomical Associa- 

 tion. He died on the 29th November, 1916, in his eighty- 

 third year. 



Honorary Member, 



Professor Daniel Oliver was born at Newcastle-upon- 

 Tyne, on February 6th, 1830, and was educated partly in 

 private schools. Attached from an early age to botanical 

 study, and a youthful member of a local scientific society, 

 we find him in 1847 contributing to the Phytologist a list 

 of rare plants from different geological formations, and in 

 1850 adding a new genus to the flora of the United Kingdom. 

 In 1851 he became a fellow of the Edinburgh Botanical 

 Society, and in 1853 of the Linnean Society. His reputa- 

 tion as a keen and critical worker, gained in the north of 

 England, was already such as to prompt Sir William Hooker 

 to invite him to assist his son in the heavy task of arrang- 



