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218 B.A. and B.Sc, 1891, M.A. with first class f honours 1892, D.Sc. 1900. Author of various scientific memoirs, and Geography of New Zealand (1905). m. 1900, Ruth Mary Dudley. ReoreatioM— Cricket, tennis, and mountaineering:. Addreu — Otago Uni- yersity, Dunedin.

EAU-KAXA, Cr. W. Xn, Director of Albert Street (Melbourne) Oonservatorium, and from 1891 to 1900 Ormond Professor of Music in the University of Melbourne. He resuscitated the Melbourne Orchestra, gave some of the best performances of Beethoven and Wagner and other masters ever heard in that city, and conducted the Melbourne Lie- dertafel for sometime. Is a composer, and has written poetry and dramas.

Bobert Mumphxay, M.D.; b. Penn, Staffordshire, Eng., Aug. 8, I860, s. of the late Henry Marten, O.E., of Great George St. Westminster and the Birches Codsall Staffordshire, ed. Mill Hill Sen., University OolL, and Hospital London, and Gonville and Caius OolL Cambridge (M.D., B.8.), M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. London, Medallist in University College London in Surgery, Obstetrics, and Forensic Medicine. He was House Surgeon to University OolL Hospital London, Resident Medical Officer of Addenhooke's Hospital Cambridge, end House Surgeon to the Staffordshire General Hospital. He arrived in South Australia in 1888, was sometime on the surgical staff of Adelaide Hospital, and is Medical Officer to the Queen's Home Adelaide. Author of paper on Some of the Effects of Migration from the Northern to the Southern Hemi- sphere, read before the Anthropological Society of Cambridge, and of numerous me- dical and surgical papers in various medical publications. Fellow of the Royal Anthro- pological Society of Great Britain and Ire- land, and Fellow of the Royal Society ot Medicine, London, m A. F., d of the late T. F. Montdth, of Adelaide. Recreation* — Motoring and golf. Addrese — 12 North Terrace, Adelaide.

KTDT, diaries James, M.B., D.Sc, F.R.S., Fellow of King's College London, Director British Institute of Preventive Me- dicine, late Professor of Physiology in the University of Melbourne, appointed 1901, previously from 1897 Lecturer In Physio- logy at that University, and Demonstrator in Physiology m the University of 8ydney; b. London, 1866, and ed. King's College Lon- don, St. Thomas's Hospital, University of Leipzig. Exhibitioner, gold medal and Uni- versity Scholar in Physiology London. Ad- drees — British Institute of Preventive Medi- cine, Chelsea Gardens, London.

UAJiTZsT, David, I.S.O., Secretary of Public Works Victoria since May 1895, and now senior permanent head of the Victorian public service; b. OlonmeL Tipperary, Ire- land, June 1, 1841, and arrived in Vic Feb. 1855. He was appointed to the Depart- ment of Lands and Survey m 1859, Relieving; Officer and Inspector of Country Offices in 1874, and visiting Great Britain and the Continent in 1877 acquired knowledge re- lating to agriculture, viticulture, and forestry. He was Land Officer for the Wim- mera district 1878-81, transferred to the Agricultural Department in 1881, and shortly afterwards was appointed Secretary for Agriculture. He reorganized the Forest division, administered the Vines Diseases Acts, and was a member of the Council under the Agricultural College Act. In 1888 Parlt. granted £288,000 for the develop- ment of agriculture, and he was selected to administer the Act and the comprehensive duties embraced in the produce export trade. The Depts. of Agriculture and Public Works were eventually separated, and he retained the position of Secretary for Public Worka. In conjunction with the Hon. J. L. Dow when that gentleman was Minister of Agricul- ture he inaugurated the butter bonus system, which was largely responsible for placing dairy fanning in its present position. Deco- rated 1905. m. 1879, Julia Amherst Mary, e. d. of F. W. Stacey; eight children. Addreee— Public Works Office, Melbourne.

MARTIN, Mrs. Frederick (nee Catherine Edith Mackay), novelist; 6. Isle of Skye, and arrived in South Australia with her parents when a child. Early life spent in Narracoorte and Mount Gambler, but her literary tastes took her to Adelaide, where she was for sometime in the Education Dept. Author of An Australian Girl (pub- lished by Bentley in 1890) and The Silent Sea (published under the pen name of Mrs. Alick McLeod in 1892). Has written many tales and sketches for the Adelaide and Melbourne press, mostly Australian, and some reminiscent of extensive travel and observations on the Continent of Europe. Author of the Explorers and other Poems.