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 224 JOHNS'S NOTABLE AUSTRALIANS AND ehiels, Scot. March 20 1859, ed. at Lanca- shire Independent College, Victoria University, and London University (B.A. 1884, three scholarships). Author of School History of Australia, and of Fraser essays on "Agnosticism" and "Secularism." ilddreta-r-Toorak Ed., Hamilton, Bris. mm, Benjamin fiftwin, artist; o. New South Wales Nov. 17, 1864. Vice- President of the Royal Art Society of N.S.W. in 1895, in which year he left for Europe. Has ten works in the N.S.W. Na- tional Gallery, and has exhibited at the New Salon, Royal Academy, Royal Insti- tute of Painters in Watercolours, Liverpool and Manchester Exhibitions. Contributor to Punch and principal London illustrated periodicals. Address— Carlton Studio, Carl- ton Vale, London.

Michell, David, contractor; b. in Forfarshire, Scot in 1828. Arrived in Victoria in 1852. His contracts include some of the principal buildings in Mel- bourne, such as the Equitable Buildings, Prell's Buildings, Melbourne Exhibition Building, Soots Church, and the Masonic Hall. He is largely interested in pastoral properties, and owns famous cement works at Burnley, Richmond. His eldest daugh- ter is Madame Melba.

MXTOBBUb, Edward F. f K.O., an emi- nent barrister of Melbourne. MXTCKEJUb, William, Professor of Philo- sophy in the University of Adelaide since 1894 ; ©. Inveravon, Banffshire, Scotland, Mar. 27, 1861, s. of Peter Mitchell, farmer, ed. Elgin and Edin. Univ. (M.A. and D.Sc. in Philo- sophy). Was sometime Lecturer on Ethics at Edin. Univ., and on Education University ColL London, and Examiner in Philosophy Edin. Univ. and Theory of Education Cam- bridge Univ. Arrived in Aust. in Mar. 1896. tn. at Adelaide, Marjory Erlistoun, d. of R. Barr Smith. Author of The Structure and Growth of the Mind, (Macmillan * Co., 1907). Address— The University, Adelaide MXTCHBMOV, Hon. Bdwln, o. at Auckland, N.Z. April 12, 1846, «. of Alexander and Johannah Mitchelson, who arrived in the colony in 1841. He was a member of the Hobson County Council for first two years after the Counties Act came into force, sat in the House of Representa- tives for Marsden from 1881 to 1884, and for Eden from 1884 to 1897, Minister for Public Works and Railways, Nov. 1888 to August 16, 1884, Minister for Public Works and Railways August 28 to Sept 8 1884, Minister for Railways, Native Minister, and Postmaster-General from October 8, 18 S 7 to January 24, 1891, and Acting Premier. Colonial Treasurer and Commissioner of Customs, January 1890 to January 1891. He was Mayor of Auckland from 1903 to 1905, Chairman of the Remuera Road Board, 1903 to 1906, and member of Uni- versity College Council, and Grammar School Board, 1903 to 1905, and is at pres- ent Chairman of the Auckland Harbour Board, Sinking Fund Commissioner Auck- land City and Remuera Road Board, and Trustee of the Auckland Savings Bank. Gazetted Honourable, 1891. m. 1871, Sarah Wilson. Address — "WtiUramoi " Victoria Avenue, Remuera, Auckland, N.Z. I naturalist* b. Brighton, England, July 11. Arrived in 8outh Australia in 1889, and chiefly self-educated. He was General Secre- tary of the Agricultural Bureau of S.A. for 14 years to July 1902, and was pre- viously agricultural writer for The Observer and other journals. He founded in 1875 and conducted the Garden and Field news- paper, and interested himself for many years fh scientific agriculture and the study I of natural history. He presented to the South Australian Museum the first five speci- mens of the marsupial mole (Jotoryctes typhlops), new species, new genus, and was the primary cause of the discovery of ovi- parous generation of Echidna hystrix. He has been a member of numerous learned societies, and is honorary life member of several. He owns a fleet of fishing boats engaged on the lakes nr. Goolwa and the Murray Mouth. Address — Kent Terrace. Kent Town, South Australia, MOVOUEFF, Alexander Bala, C.E., M.I.C.E., Engineer-in-Chief South Australia, including railways, and Engineer for Har- bours and Jetties since Apr. 1888; 6. Dublin. Ireland, May 22, 1845, s. of Alexander Ru- therford Moncrieff, ed. Belfast Acad., and pupil of E. Millar, C.E., Inchicore Works, Great Southern and Western Railway. Ar- rived in 8.A. in Feb. 1876 as Engineerini
 * BEOUNSTTX, Albert, agronomist and
 * 1832, s. of Edward and Martha Molineux.