6 H. C. RUSSELL. 
establishing a Chair of Bacteriology. Altogether his contributions 
to science must exceed £100,000. During the later years of his 
life he had offered science fellowships to students of natural 
history and several were granted. In 1875 Sir William was 
elected a fellow of the University Senate, and as a Senator he 
invariably threw the weight of his great personal influence and 
knowledge into the science schools. Few men in this world have 
ever thrown themselves and their fortune more unreservedly into 
the cause of science. 
We have sustained another great loss by the death on 26th 
August, 1891, of CoarLes SmirH WiLkinson, late Government 
Geologist. Mr. Wilkinson was born in Northamptonshire in 
1843, and was the fourth son of the late David Wilkinson, c.E£., 
who was one of the associates of George Stephenson in designing 
the improvements in locomotive engines. In 1852 Mr. David 
Wilkinson decided to make his home in Australia, and accordingly 
proceeded there with his family, and settled in Melbourne as a civil 
engineer. Here he took a very active part in promoting engineer™ 
ing works in the young colony. He was instrumental in starting 
the first steamboat company on the Upper Yarra, and took an active 
interest in the introduction of railways. Mr. C. 8. Wilkinson’s 
early school days were spent at Ebly, near Stroud in Gloucester- 
shire, a county abounding in remarkable geological formations, 
which almost from his infancy possessed a great attraction for 
him. In Melbourne his education was continued in a Collegiate 
school under the Rev. T. P. Fenner, m.a. Through his school life 
he devoted his whole attention to work, and carried off many 
prizes in Latin, French, geography, mapping, and Divinity. In 
December 1859, being then only sixteen years old, he was offered 
a position in the Geological Survey Office by Mr. A. R. C. Selwyn, 
F.G.S., Director of the Geological Survey Department. Nothing 
could have been offered more congenial to his tastes, and he at once 
accepted it. In 1861 he was made field assistant to Mr. Richard 
Daintree, F.G.s., Geological Surveyor who was then carrying out 
