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 by the principal flock masters in South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia, New Zealand, and the Cape of Good Hope, to the thorough improvement of the flocks. Though at first averse to being a lessee of the Crown (squatter), Mr. Murray ultimately ventured to take an interest in this, and now holds (unprofitably, he says) about 2,700 square miles of Crown leases. Shortly after arrival here he was appointed to the Commission of Peace; and although not a keen politician, was, by requisition, asked to contest the election for the Gumeracha district. He was returned for the Assembly by the same constituency three times, and ultimately, on resigning that position, was elected as member of the Upper House, which seat he now holds. Mr. Murray is well known as the earnest advocate of all measures which are calculated to benefit the land of his adoption, and his opinions always command that respect from his colleagues that their liberality deserves.

Clement L. Wragge, F.R.G.S., F.R. Met. Society. ORN September 18, 1852, at Stourbridge, Worcestershire. His parents died during his infancy, and he was taken to Oakamoor, a village in the romantic and lovely valley of the River Churnet, in North Staffordshire, and the family home, where he was reared by his grandmother, to whose memory he owes a continual debt of gratitude. As his father, a solicitor, was a Staffordshire man, he regards himself as of Staffordshire extraction. During childhood, amid the wild scenery of the moorlands and Churnet valley, he acquired a strong love for the beauties of nature, so much so that by the time he had reached his tenth year he had a small museum of natural history and geology, containing many objects of his own collecting. His early education was at Uttoxeter Grammar School, Staffordshire; and, after completing it, he removed to London, where he was educated for