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three years he resigned in consequence of ill health. A year and 
a-half later he was summoned to the Legislative Council, and, in 
1873, was..made.President, a position he retained:to the end; in 
1877 he was made k.c.m.c. His long Parliamentary and official 
experience eminently qualified him for his position. His rulings 
in the chair were always respected, and his opinions carried great 
weight. Outside Parliament he gave much of his time to assist- 
ing any movement for the public good. He was elected a fellow 
of the Senate of the University in 1870, and he was a regular 
attendant to within a short time of his death; his mature judgment | 
and many services to the University will long be remembered. 
THomas KinGsMILL ABBOTT, Stipendiary Magistrate, was born 
in 1845. He was educated in Sydney and entered the public 
service in 1867. He was appointed Clerk of Petty Sessions at 
Gunnedah. Then Police Magistrate there; and after being 
Police Magistrate in West Maitland for some years he was, in 
1882, made Stipendiary Magistratein Sydney. On Ist of August 
1891, he died from influenza. In 1877 he was made a member of 
our Society, and devoted a good deal of time to the study of 
underground waters, and contributed one valuable paper on that 
subject to our Society. 
Rev. Rosert Couuiz, died on April 18, 1892. He was born on 
the banks of the Dee in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Was ordained 
a Minister in 1866, and, after spending ten years asa minister in 
England, he came to New South Wales with a commission from 
the Free Church of Scotland. Soon after his arrival he was 
elected minister of the Free Church of Scotland at Newtown, and 
continued pastor until his death. He made many warm friends 
wherever he went. He had quite a reputation as a lecturer, and 
use his gift freely in the great work he had devoted his life to. 
In spare moments he studied botany enthusiastically, and made 
many original studies of the flora of Australia and New Zealand, 
and a number of plants have been named after him. In recog- 
nition of his scientific work he was made a fellow of the Linnean 
Society of London. 
