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corresponding member ; eight by resignations ; and eleven have 

 been struck off the roll for non-payment of subscription ; leaving 

 a total of 461 on April 30, 1890 ; this number however does no 

 include our honorary and corresponding members. The losses by 

 death were : — Thomas Nott, m.d., Aberdeen m.r.c.s., elected in 

 1875 ; The Rev. J. P. Sunderland, elected in 1884; The Rev. 

 J. E. Tenison-Woods, f.g.s., f.l.s., Honorary Member, elected in 

 1875 ; Mr. Felix Ratte, Assistant in Mineralogy at the Aus- 

 tralian Museum; Major-General Sir Edward Ward, r.e., k.c.m.g., 

 who first joined the Society in 1856. 



The Society has sustained a great loss by the death of the Rev. 

 J. E. Tenison-Woods, m.a., f.g.s., f.l.s., Hon. Mem. Roy. Soc, 

 Victoria ; Hon. Mem. Roy. Soc, Tasmania ; Hon. Mem. Adelaide 

 Phil. Soc. ; Hon. Mem. New Zealand Institute ; Hon. Mem. 

 Linnean Soc, &c, who died on the 7th October last. He was 

 one of our first honorary members, elected in 1875, and he almost 

 immediately acknowledged his connection w T ith the Society by 

 presenting contributions to it, the first being entitled, " On some 

 Tertiary Australian Polyzoa," read before our meeting held on 

 Oct. 4, 1876, followed by others at frequent intervals. The 

 following account of the Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods is founded 

 upon various notices which appeared at the time of his death. 



The Rev. Julian Edmund Tenison-Woods was born on Nov. 15, 

 1832, at West Square, London. He was the son of Mr. James 

 Dominick Woods, Q.c., f.s.a., of the Middle Temple and Sydenham, 

 Kent, who for forty years was a leading member of the literary 

 staff of the " Times" His mother was daughter of the Rev. Joseph 

 Tenison of Donoughmore Glebe, Country Wicklow, Ireland, a son 

 of the Bishop of Ossory, and grand nephew of Archbishop Tenison 

 of Canterbury. For a time he was educated under Mr. Thomas 

 Hunt at Hammersmith and at the Grammar School, Newington, 

 whence he proceeded to Balliol College, Oxford, and afterwards 

 to France, where he became one of the instructors at the College 

 for Naval Cadets at Toulon. During his four years stay in France 

 he first developed his taste for Natural History and Geology. In 



