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Rh for studenti of botany, established a museum of economic botany, a garden for medioal students, and a systematio collection of living plants arranged in their order and families. A large plantation of solely Australian plants was begun in 1878, and has been added to up to date. Publications include Australian Botany for use, of schools, First Book of Australian Botany, A.B.O. of Botany, and numerous pamphlets — Fibre Plants, Pictu- resque Parks and Oardens of Europe, Plants of the Ifelb. Botanic Gardens, Vegetation of the Tweed District N.S.W., Botany of the South Seas, and Shakespearian Botany. Ad- dress—Botanic Gardens, Melbourne.

&UIMMB8B, Sou. Arthur Bobcat, Speaker of the New Zealand Boons of Bep- resentatrres since June 1908; b. at Cal- cutta, India, January 11, 1846, a. of Frank Hart Viceesimus Guinness, nephew of the late Sir Arthur Guinness, Dublin. Arrived in New Zealand in August 1868, and erf. Christ's Oollege Grammar School, Christ- ehurch. Is a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealsnd, baring been admitted at Christchurch in May 1867. He was elected a member of Westiand Provin- cial Council In 1674, member of Grey County Council In 1877, and re-elected con- tinnoualy until 1881; appointed County Chairman at the first meeting of the County Council In 1877, and re-elected annually for eight yean; member of Greymouth Har- bour Board since 1884, and several times held office of Chairman of the Board. Enter- ing the House of Bepresentatives In July 1884 for Grey district he has sat for thin district ever since; from 1898 till 1008 he was Chairman of Committees, and elected Speaker In 1908 and again in 1906. m. 1878 at Greymouth Elisabeth Westbrook. Captain of Westiand cricket eleven tor many yean. Addr««— Greymouth, Westiand, N.Z.

Sdward John Daj v LS.O., Crown Solicitor of Victoria. Decorated 1908. Address — The Law Department, Melbourne.

•VUlTf, Kenxy, retired journalist; b South Devon, Eng., Jan. 80, 1887. Arrived in AusL In Apr. 1868, spent some time on goldnelds, and afterwards farming in Vic. Visited Eng. in June 1861, was sent by the late Edward Wilson, proprietor of The Argus, so the Argus office in 1868, and joined the reporting staff. Resided In Ceylon as tele- graphio repr e se nta tive of The Argus June 1869-June 1870, Sub-Editor of The Argue 1870-78, Editor of The Australasian 1878- 86, Associate Editor of the Sydney Dairy Telegraph Aug. 1886-June 1890, Associate Editor of Sydney Morning Herald June 1890- Feb. 1899, and Acting Editor of the Herald during the first Federal Referendum cam- paign in 1898, when his championship of the federal cause in the editorial chair of The Herald largely won the battle tor fede- ration. He visited England in 1899, and) on return retired from journalism. Editor temporarily of the Sydney Daily Telegraph) Aug. 1901-Feb. 1908, when he finally retired. President of the Shakspeare 8oclety of N.S.W. since 1964. at. Nov. 1878 Lucy Willie- (who died in 1900). Beereations— Literature and gardening. Residence— HindfeU, Wah- roonga, N.8.W.

GUNN, Jeannie (Mrs. Aeneas Gunn), author; 6. at Melbourne June 6, 1870. youngest d. of Thomas and the late Anna Taylor, g. d. of the late Bev. James Taylor and the late John Lush, erf. home tuition; passed matriculation at Melbourne Univer- sity In 1888, and from 1888 to 1901 waa a teacher in private schools in her native city. After her marriage she proceeded with her husband, A. J. Gunn, to the Northern Territory to the Eleey cattle station on the Boper River, 800 miles south from Port Darwin, and 170 miles from Pine Creek, the overland railway terminus. Her hue- band died at the station in March 1908, and she returned to Melbourne, where she resides. Her first literary work was Tae Utile Black Princess, published In 1905, dealing with life on the station, particu- larity the manners and customs of the Roper tribe. This has reached its third edition. m. Dec. 1901 Aeneas James Gunn, tod *. of the late Rev. Peter Gunn, first Gaelic min- ister in Melbourne. A. J. Gunn was well known in Melbourne as a writer of descrip- tive sketches from the Never Never country. Address— "Rolyat" Oreswick St., Hawthorn, Vic.

OimZVO, John, Editor of The Daily Telegraph, Launceston, since June 1896; ». Warminster, Wiltshire, Eng., Jan. 11, 1868,
 * . of James Gunning, erf. The British ScIk