14 C. HEDLEY. 



certain injurious substances." 1 To the Agricultural Gazette 

 of N. S. Wales, Vols, iv to xix, he contributed fourteen 

 papers, dealing with apiculture, bacteriology, wheat, and 

 manure. After he was superannuated from the Govern- 

 ment Service he busied himself with naming, arranging and 

 expanding the large natural history collections he had 

 formed. Returning from a voyage to the Solomons, the 

 sudden change of climate brought on a cold to which he 

 succumbed in his seventy-second year on July 17th, 1914. 

 He left a family of two daughters. 



Mr. Leslie A. B. Wade, Assoc, m. inst. c.b., adopted the pro- 

 fession of his father, Mr. W. B. Wade, and entered the 

 service of the Government as an engineer in 1880. For 

 some time he was engaged in drainage works, but on the 

 formation of an irrigation branch he joined it, and ultim- 

 ately rose to its control, as Commissioner for Water Con- 

 servation and Irrigation. Amongst other works he designed 

 the Cataract Dam, the Burrenjuck Dam, and the Murrum- 

 bidgee irrigation scheme. His work in this direction was 

 very sound, and will benefit a future large agricultural 

 population. He joined our Society in 1898, contributing a 

 paper in 1903, "A Review of Water Conservation in New 

 South Wales," and retired in 1909. On January 13th, 1915, 

 he died rather suddenly, at the age of 50 years, leaving a 

 widow and four daughters. 



The loss of the Fisheries Investigation vessel 'Endeavour' 

 with all hands, about the end of last year, off Macquarie 

 Island, was a scientific, as well as a social disaster. For 

 several years Mr. H. O. Dannevig, Director of Fisheries, 

 equipped with every modern requisite for oceanographic 

 research had been engaged in examining the coasts of most 

 Australian States. His collections were remitted to the 



3 This Journal, xxxvi, 1902, pp. 191-200 ; Id. xxxvii, 1903, pp. 165 - 

 171 ; Id. xxxviii, 1904, pp. 390 - 401. 



