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 survey cruise among the South Sea Islands, was absent about nine years and then returned to the home station. During this period, and thenceforward up till the time of Commander Hutchinson's death, Lieutenant Howard served under him, and eventually succeeded to the command of the surveying schooner, "Beatrice," and finished the coast survey in 1881. Being unable to support his family on half-pay in South Australia, Commander Howard left for Sydney, New South Wales, where he is now engaged in coast surveys for the Government of a similiar [sic] character to those he so creditably made in this colony. As Commander Howard's career was intimately associated with that of Commander Hutchinson, to avoid repetitions, the reader is referred for further information to his biography on page 249, and to which may be added the following particulars, kindly supplied by Commander Howard. "Capt. John Hutchinson was a son of Captain W. Hutchinson, who served with distinction in the war with France, and was for many years Queen's Harbour Master at Kingston, near Dublin. Capt. J. Hutchinson was a good surveyor and officer, and of a most amiable disposition. At his death he left a widow, now resident at the Cheltenham Ladies' College, England, and one son, a sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy. His remains rest in the North Adelaide Cemetery."  Rev. Samuel Keen, ORN in Devonshire in 1818, and passed some time at the Theological Institution in that county. In 1848 he entered the Bible Christian ministry, and travelled in connection with the South Devon Mission, and in the Chatham Circuit for two years, and in these localities evinced much energy and zeal. Arrived in Adelaide in March 1853, and was first stationed at Gawler Plains, where he opened a circuit, and remained seven years. In 1860 he removed to the city,