XV. 
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 
University of Minnesota. 
University of Nel)raska. 
I'ield ^luseum of Natural History, Chicago. 
Lloyd Library, Cincinnati. 
John Crerar Lil)rary. 
American Association for International Conciliation, New 
York. 
OBITUARY. 
SIR J. WINTHROP HACKETT. 
Bv the death of Sir J. Winthroj) Hackett, K.C.M.G., l).C.L._, 
which occurred at his residence in Perth, on the V.hh of February. 
1916. the Society lost one of its oldest members, and Perth, a 
citizen who has always been to the front in matters of education 
in this State. 
Sir Winthrop Hackett was born in 1H48 at Lordello in the 
County of Dublin, the eldest child of the Rev. John Winthrop 
Hackett, M.A. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1874, and in the 
following year having come out to Australia, was admitted to the 
Bar in Sy(iney, but soon turned his attention to journalism; in 1882 
he came to West Australia, shortly after which he entered into 
partnership in the West Australian newspaper, of which he retained 
the management up to the day of his death. He was a Governor of 
the High School, Perth, and was one of the most i)rominent. if 
not the most prominent of the founders of the University of 
Western Australia, of which he was the first Chancelor, and in 
which he endowed a Chair of Agriculture. He was also prominent 
in the affairs of the Public Library and Museum, and presided over 
the Zoological Gardens and Acclimatisation Society; he was also 
an active supporter and contributer to the National Art Gallery. 
Sir Winthrop left a wife, a son and four daughters to mourn 
his loss. He was one of the earliest members of the Natural 
History and Science Sockty of Western Australia, the iiarent of 
the present Society, and he remained a member of the Royal 
Society of Western Australia up to the time of his death, but was 
prevented by his various interests from taking any very active 
part in its operations. 
