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 and passed in physics under Professor Tyndall, geology under Sir Andrew Ramsay, mineralogy under Sir W. Warrington Smyth, mechanics under Professors Willis and Goodeve, and metallurgy under Dr. Percy. He also spent some time in Dr. Frankland's private chemical laboratory as a senior student upon research work. In 1870 he obtained an open scholarship in science at Christ's College, Cambridge. During his first year at Cambridge he held the post of Demonstrator of Chemistry in the university laboratory for two terms, in the absence of Dr. Hicks. He was one of the first two students in the new physiological laboratory at Cambridge started by Professor Michael Foster. In 1872 he was offered the appointment of Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy in the University of Sydney, and went out in September of that year. He was a commissioner for New South Wales at the Paris Exhibition in 1878, and a juror in chemistry and metallurgy. He has been a trustee of the Australian Museum, Sydney, since 1874, and during visits to Europe, America, and elsewhere purchased most of the non-Australian mineral and geological collections which it possesses. Professor Liversidge has also been a member of the Sydney University Senate since 1878, and Dean of the Faculty of Science since the formation of that faculty in 1883. He made the chemical investigations upon the Sydney water supply for the Government in 1876; was one of the original members of the Board of Technical Education, and Hon. Secretary of the Royal Society of New South Wales from 1874 to 1889, exclusive of the period when he was President in 1883-4. He was the President for 1889-90. He was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of England in 1882. He published a work on the minerals of New South Wales in 1888, to show the progress made in the knowledge of mineralogy in New South Wales during the first hundred years of its history. He originated the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science as a centennial record of the progress of the colonies. He has visited Tasmania and New Zealand three times, Fiji, Java, China, Japan, and the United States in 1887. Professor Archibald Liversidge is an Associate of the Royal School of Mines, London; Fellow of the Chemical Society, London; Fellow Institute Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland; F.G.S.; F.L.S.; F.R.G.S.; member Physiological Society, London; member Mineralogical Society, Great Britain and Ireland; corresponding member Royal Society, Tasmania; corresponding member Leuckenberg Institute, Frankfort; corresponding member Society d'Acclimatisation, Mauritius; Hon. Fellow Royal Historical Society, London; member Mineralogical Society of France; editor of the Journal of the Royal Society of New South Wales; and is the author of some twenty scientific papers and reports on chemistry, mineralogy, etc.

Lloyd, Hon. George Alfred, M.L.C., was born at Norwood in Surrey, and was employed in a shipping and insurance broker's office in London. In 1838 he emigrated to New South Wales, and ultimately began a successful career as a general merchant in Sydney. He represented Newcastle in the Assembly from 1869 to 1877, was Postmaster-General from May to Dec. 1872, and Colonial Treasurer from Dec. 1872 to Feb. 1875 in the first Ministry. Mr. Lloyd was Secretary for Mines in the second Parkes Government, which lasted from Feb. to August 1877, in which year he was defeated at Newcastle, but was subsequently re-elected. In Feb. 1887 he was nominated to the Legislative Council.

 Loch, His Excellency Sir Henry Brougham, G.C.M.G., late Governor of Victoria, is the son of James Loch, of Drylaw, sometime M.P. for St. Germans and Wick Burghs, and Ann his wife, daughter of Patrick Orr, of Bridgeton, Forfarshire, and was born on May 23rd, 1827. He was in the royal navy from 1840 to 1842, entered the 3rd Bengal Cavalry in 1844, and was appointed aide-de-camp to Lord Gough, Commander-in-Chief in India, in 1846. In 1850 he was appointed adjutant and second in command of Skinner's Horse, and in 1854 was sent to Bulgaria to assist in organising the Turkish cavalry. In the same year he crossed to the Crimea in H.M.S. Agamemnon, and was attached to Lord Elgin's special embassies to China and Japan from 1857 to 1860. He was the bearer to England of the treaty of Yeddo concluded with Japan in 1858, and was 277