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 58o ADELAIDE AND VICINITY captain w. white Tinfields, near Broken Hill. After making a careful examination of them, he tendered an adverse opinion. In 1894 he paid a visit of inspection to the goldfields of Western Australia, and, on his return to Adelaide, gave much valuable information respecting them. He was an investor in mining stock in Adelaide up to the time of his death in June, 1895; and when he died there was much regret expressed, for he had won many friends by his generosity of disposition and hearty goodwill to all. The extension of Captain White's connection in Cornwall may be judged when we state that he signed testimonials for over 500 men before he left for Australian shores. In his native land in 1865 he won a Queen's Prize for mining — practical and theoretical. He was a member of the Council of Mining Engineers of Australia. Captain White took an intense interest in horticultural matters, and in the lovely gardens surrounding his home at Unley Park, charming tributes of his skill in this direction were apparent. He left a widow, two sons, and four daughters. Mrs. White has largely identified herself with the charitable affairs of the district in which she resides, and her name is prominent in philanthropic affiirs. Professor Edward von Blomberir Bensly, M.A. BORN in 1863, Professor E. von B. Bensly is the son of the late Mr. R. L. Bensly, M.A., Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge, and one of the revisers of the Old Testament. He was educated at Plastbourne College (Leaf Scholar, 1875) and at Haileybury College (Entrance Scholar, 1876 ; Leaving Exhibitioner, 1881), under the late Dr. Bradby. He was elected to an Open Foundation Scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1881, before coming into residence. As an undergraduate he obtained college prizes for Classics, Classical Composition and Greek Testament, and a cup for an English declamation. In 1883 he was placed by the University Examiners in the First Division of the First Class of the Classical Tripos (Part I.), and in 1885 in the First Class of the Classical Tripos (Part 11.) for Sections A (Translation and Composition) and B (Language). He was "honorably mentioned" by the examiners for the Chancellor's Classical Medals in 1885. F"rom 1885-7 Professor Bensly studied Classics in Germany: matriculating at Tubingen in 1885, and at Leipzig in 1886. On returning to Cambridge, Profes.sor Bensly was engaged in giving private tuition to candidates for classical honors, and in examining work for the University. In 1891 he was appointed an adjudicator for the Members' University Prize for an I^nglish P2ssay. He also gained experience in collating MSS. From 1889-91 and 1893-4 Professor Bensly acted as Lecturer to the Cambridge I-ocal Plxaminations and Lectures Syndicate ; and in 1892 he accepted an invitation from the University of Chicago to assist in starting University extension work there. He was offered, and declined, an assistant professorship. From January to May, 1895, he studied Greeco- Roman Art and Archaeology in Rome, having the personal advice and instruction of the late Dr. J. H. Middleton. In the summer of 1895 Professor Bensly sailed to Australia to take up the duties of the Chair of Classics in the University of Adelaide. In 1897 he revisited Plngland, when he married Mary Hamilton, daughter of the late Major-General D. J. Welsh, R.A.