10 A. LIVEESIDGE. 



" Victoria River : Trip to." — Sydney Morning Herald. Two letters. 



" Travel : Notes of." — Sydney Morning Herald. Seven letters. 



"Coal Trade between Australia and the East." — Sydney Morning Herald. 

 Six letters. 



"Carboniferous Rocks of the Lower Burnett." — Bundaberg and Mount 

 Perry Mail, 1881. 



" Geological Observations in South Australia." 1862. 1 vol. London 

 and Melbourne. 



" Discovery and Exploration of Australia : History of." 1865. 2 vols* 



London. 

 " Fish and Fisheries of New South Wales." 1882. 1 vol. Sydney. 



Major-General Sir Edward Wolstenholme Ward, r.e., k.c.m.g., 

 of the family of Viscount Bangor, of Castle Ward, County Down, 

 Ireland, the son of the Hon. John Petty Ward, of the Bengal 

 Civil Service, and Eleanor Erskine, was born in 1823, and 

 entered the Royal Engineers in 1841. He received instruction in 

 practical chemistry under Dr. Lyon Playfair, and was one of the 

 first students at the London School of Mines. He took part in 

 the Great Exhibition of 1851, and was appointed Deputy Master 

 of the Sydney Branch of the Royal Mint in 1853, and entrusted 

 with its organization and establishment. He arrived in Sydney 

 in 1854, and opened the Mint in 1855. 



In 1857 he married a daughter of the late Hon. Robert Campbell, 

 m.l.c, of Sydney. He remained in charge of the Mint until 

 March, 1865, when he left the colony. Prior to his departure 

 the thanks of Parliament were accorded him for his valuable 

 services in the terms of the following resolution : — " The Council 

 " further desire to place on record and to express to Colonel 

 " Ward the high sense entertained by the Government of his 

 " valuable services as Deputy Master of the Royal Mint Branch 

 " in New South Wales, as well as for the important assistance 

 " which on many occasions he has rendered in matters not 

 " immediately connected with his own department of the Public 

 "Service." He returned to military duty at Chatham. After- 

 wards he was re-appointed Deputy Master of the Mint, and 

 charged with the formation and establishment of the Melbourne 

 Branch, which he opened in 1872 and of which he held the 



