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NOTES AND COMMEN'ES. 
Bue Breap.—lt is interesting to note that on examina- 
tion I found that the Bee Bread taken from the cell of the 
nest of the Mason Bee was composed of pollen from myr- 
taceous plants, such as Leplospermum, Meloleuca, ete. 
—AGNES A, BREWSTER. 
OBITUARY. 
It is with the deepest regret that we record the deaths 
of the following friends :— 
Mr. Sutherland Sinclair, Secretary to the Australian 
Museum, who died early in May after a long illness. Mr. 
Sinclair, who was a native of Greenock, Scotland, had been 
connected with the Museum for a long series of years, and 
was thus well known in scientific circles. He took a deep 
interest in the welfare of the young, particularly in connec- 
tion with Sunday School work, with which he was all his 
life actively associated. Ie recently presented to the Pres- 
byterian Church Offices his very fine library of works deal- 
ing with Sunday Schools and their teaching. 
Mr. Alfred John North, Ornithologist to the Australian 
Museum for over 25 years, died suddenly at Chatswood 
on 6th May. Myr. North had been in indifferent health 
for some time past, but until quite recently he car- 
ried on his work at the Museum. He was the author of 
numerous papers on Ornithology, and his principal work 
was the fine volume on the ‘‘Eges of Australian’ Birds,’’ 
published by the Museum Trustees. 
Mr. Dene B. Fry, killed in aetion with the A.J.B. in 
France on April 9th, was a young man of great promise. 
During the six years in which he was employed as a Zoo- 
logical assistant at the Australian Museum, he became an 
expert in the study of Frogs and Lizards, and publisned 
a number of remarkably able papers, particularly on Frogs. 
At. the time of his enlistment he was a student at Sydney 
