4 J. H. MAIDEN. 
at the Sydney Grammar School, and received systematic legal 
training, although he never became a solicitor. He had consider- 
able experience in the management of mining companies, and his 
organising ability was also shown in the City Mutual Fire Insur- 
ance Company, the Citizens’ Life Assurance Company, and other 
institutions founded and managed by him. He was a member of 
Parliament for many years and a Treasurer of the Colony. 
Of recent years no member more regularly attended our monthly 
meetings than did the Rev. W. Wyatt GILL, B.A., LL.D., a man 
of much charm of manner, and one whose depth of knowledge 
was only equalled by his willingness to impart it. He was one 
of the pioneer missionaries of the London Missionary Society in 
the South Seas, and died on the 11th November last. His 
experience of the South Sea mission field extended over about 
half a century, and his Lu.p. degree was conferred in recognition 
of his work of seeing through the press a translation of the Bible 
in the Rarotongan language. Rarotonga was for many years the 
field of his missionary labours, and Dr. Gill’s knowledge of the 
dialect was singularly accurate and ample. He was the author 
of several books on folk lore in the South Seas, and a contributor 
of numerous papers on ethnology and kindred subjects to many 
scientific and literary institutions. These led him into communion 
with several eminent students on the subject of ethnology, notably 
Professor Max Miiller. For several years Dr. Gill was associated 
with Dr. Chalmers in New Guinea, which was the last scene of 
his missionary labours. His long experience of the natives of the 
South Seas led him to be regarded as one of the highest authorities 
upon the languages, customs, and history of those peoples, and 
his contributions in this respect to the subject of ethnology are 
considered to be of unique value, in so far as they have rescued 
from oblivion what might otherwise have been now quite irrecover- 
able. Mr. ©. Silvester Horne, in his story of the London Miss- 
ionary Society, tells of Mr. Gill landing at Savage Island in 1846, 
after several futile attempts had been made by other missionaries, 
and inducing the natives to promise protection to a Samoan 
