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The full work on these fossils has lately been amplified by 

 himself and published in English as one of the "Memoirs of the 

 Geological Survey of New South Wales," (Pal. Series, Mem. No. 3). 

 His loss is greatly to be regretted and will be much felt in that 

 branch of science in which he worked so long and earnestly. 



Mr. William Jacomb Conder became a member of this Society 

 in 1876 and held a seat on the Council during 1884-85. He 

 arrived in Victoria in 1851 where he became a Surveyor, chang- 

 ing his residence in 1864 to New South Wales. Here he soon 

 became known as a very able officer in the Survey Department, 

 which led to his promotion as Chief Trigonometrical Surveyor in 

 1876. On the discontinuance of the trigonometrical survey in 

 1883, Mr. Conder was appointed chairman of a commission to 

 to enquire into and report upon District Survey Offices in the 

 Colony, and in 1885 he was made Chairman of the Cooma Land 

 Board. In May 1882 he was sent to Lord Howe Island to lay the 

 basis of correct surveys in that island, and in December of that 

 year he conducted the Transit of Venus party to the same place, 

 both of which commissions he carried out most successfully. Mr. 

 Conder died after a prolonged and severe illness on December 1st 

 1890, at the age of 59. 



Mr. G. J. Latta arrived in Victoria from England in 1860 

 as an assayer, and became in 1861 Chemist to the Port Phillip 

 Company at Clunes, when he devised a process for profitably 

 treating auriferous pyrites. In 1864 he settled in Sydney as 

 manager of the Pyrmont Tin Smelting Works, of which he was 

 also a partner. Mr. Latta was elected a member of this Society 

 in 1874, and read an interesting paper in October of that year, 

 on " Iron pyrites " before this Society. Mr. Latta was 71 years 

 of age at the time of his death in January last. 



By the death of Professor Stephens, m.a., f.g.s., the Colony 

 sustained a very great loss, and in referring to it I cannot do 

 better than extract some passages from the able address given to 

 the Linnean Society of N.S.W., on January 28th last, at their 



