140 A. LIVERSIDGE. 



elected a Corresponding Member of the Zoological Society 

 in 1872. He was a Corresponding Member of the Royal 

 Society of Tasmania, Correspondent du Mus d'Histoire Nat. 

 Paris; Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia ; Ornith. 

 Ver. Wien and K. K. Geol. Reichsanst. Wien. In 1891 he 

 was awarded the Clarke Memorial Medal by the Royal 

 Society of New South Wales for meritorious contributions 

 to the Geology of Australasia. In 1892 he was elected 

 F. U.S.; he was President of the Australian Association for 

 the Advancement of Science at the Hobart Meeting 1902, 

 and was President of the New Zealand Institute at the 

 time of his death, which took place on October 27th last, 

 on board the R.M.S. Rimutaka when returning from England 

 to New Zealand. 



He took a leading part in the scientific life both at 

 Dunedin and at Ohristchurch, and his influence was felt 

 not only over New Zealand and Australia, but throughout 

 the scientific world. He was the author of a large number 

 of valuable papers on the geology, botany and zoology of 

 New Zealand and other subjects, he was also a frequent 

 and valued contributor to "Nature "; his last contribution 

 appeared in it a month or two before his death. I do not 

 attempt to notice his work in detail, as I think that should 

 be done by one specially qualified in the subjects to which 

 our late colleague devoted himself. 



One of his first papers was an essay upon the " Import- 

 ance of a knowledge of geology to military men " published 

 in the Journal of the Royal United Service Institution in 

 1862. Many of his papers were published in the Transac- 

 tions of the New Zealand Institute, the Proceedings of the 

 Linnean Society of New South Wales, the Proceedings of 

 the Zoological Society, the Ibis, the Geological Magazine, 

 and the Reports of the Australasian Association for the 

 Advancement of Science. In the Royal Society's List of 



