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continent. Other educational efforts were the delivery of 

 popular science lectures and the explanation of scientific 

 problems to visitors and correspondents. 



In later life he gradually enlarged his interest from 

 palaeontology to ethnology. He wrote largely on the 

 manners and customs, weapons, utensils, etc., of the 

 Australian aboriginals, and inaugurated the present 

 magnificent display of native work in the museum galleries. 

 It was also chiefly through his efforts that the remarkably 

 fine ethnological exhibits from the Pacific Islands were 

 gathered together. His efforts to advance Australian 

 science were recognised by those best qualified to express 

 appreciation. The Royal Society of New South Wales 

 voted him the Clarke Memorial Medal in 1895, and the 

 Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 

 bestowed on him, in 1911, the Mueller Memorial Medal. 

 Numerous species in animals, both fossil and recent, have 

 been named in his honour. One of the highest peaks of 

 the Kosciusko Plateau and a glacier in Antarctica have 

 been called after him. 



Mr. Etheridge was of such a retiring disposition that he 

 could seldom be induced to take part in any social or even 

 scientific gathering, and he was specially averse to publicity 

 of any kind; otherwise, his name would have been a house- 

 hold word throughout Australasia. He literally lived in 

 his work, and he died in it, according to his wish. He has 

 departed this life with his work well done, a true and 

 faithful servant who has deserved well of his country, and 

 of the scientific world at large. His work is monumental 

 and will remain a perpetual help and inspiration. His two 

 sons survive him. 



Edward Noyes, who joined this Society in 1893, was a 

 son of the late Rev. Thomas Edward Noyes. He was born 

 at Creaton, Northampton in 1859, and died at Medlow on 



