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 an ice manufactory, a daily supply of fresh milk and a depôt of cooked dishes being started in connection therewith in the interests of the Sydney working classes. Mr. Mort died at Bodalla on May 9th, 1878, a monument being erected to his memory by public subscription. Mr. Mort married first, in 1841, Theresa Shepheard, eldest daughter of James Laidley, of Sydney, sometime Deputy Commissary-General (who died in 1869); and, secondly, Miss Macaulay. The firm of Mort & Co. was recently amalgamated with the equally eminent firm of R. Goldsbrough & Co., Limited, under the style of Goldsbrough, Mort & Co., Limited.

Moss, Frederick Joseph, was born at St. Helena in 1829. From St. Helena he went to Cape Colony, where he was trained to business in a merchant's office, and later on served as a burgher in the Kaffir war. In 1859 he emigrated to New Zealand, landing in Canterbury, where he at once organised and became captain of No. 3 Company of Volunteers, and took an active interest in supporting the construction of the tunnel which connects Christchurch with the port of Lyttelton. On the discovery of gold in Otago, he removed to Dunedin, where he entered into business and again took an Interest in volunteering, being elected captain of the first company there organised. In 1862 he was elected a member of the Otago Provincial Council, and shortly afterwards accepted the office of Provincial Treasurer, retaining that position till 1866, when he was succeeded by Mr. (now Sir Julius), whose policy, local or general, he has always consistently and unflinchingly opposed. In 1868 Mr. Moss went to Fiji and established himself as a planter on the Rewa River, but finding the climate injurious to his health, he returned to New Zealand and settled at Auckland, where he was elected a member of the House of Representatives for Parnell in 1876, and sat continuously for that borough until 1890, when he was appointed British Resident at Rarotonga, a position which he still holds. In 1888 Mr. Moss made a seven months' cruise on a schooner through the South Sea Islands, and published an account of his trip in a volume entitled "Through Atolls and Islands in the Great South Sea" (Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1889). He is also the author of a "School History of New Zealand" (Brett, Auckland, publisher).

Moulden, Beaumont Arnold, M.P., son of Joseph Eldin Moulden by his marriage with Margaret Perkins Hinton, was born in Southwark, London, on Oct. 11th, 1849. He arrived in South Australia with his parents in Oct. 1850. He is a legal practitioner in Adelaide, and represents the Albert district in the Legislative Assembly of South Australia. He was appointed Attorney-General in the Ministry in June 1889, but retired in March 1890, prior to the defeat of the Ministry, owing to his disapproval of some items of their policy. Mr. Moulden married in 1873 Miss Anna Mary Cramond.

Mueller, Baron Sir Ferdinand von, K.C.M.G., M.D., Ph.D., F.R.S., son of the late Frederick Mueller, of Rostock, Germany, and Louisa his wife, daughter of George Mertens, of Aschersleben, was born at Rostock in 1825, and was educated, after the early death of his parents, in Schleswig. He studied in Kiel, and devoted much time to the study of the flora of Schleswig and Holstein from 1840 to 1847, when he emigrated to Australia. He travelled through the extensive territory of South Australia, employed in botanical researches, from 1848 till 1852, at his private expense. In 1852 he accepted the then newly created office of Government Botanist for Victoria, explored there till 1855, examining also the whole alpine vegetation of Australia, which was previously utterly unknown; he ascended and named Mount Hotham, the Barkly ranges, and many other mountains, and joined as phytographic naturalist the expedition sent out under, by the Duke of Newcastle, to explore the river Victoria and other portions of the north parts of the Australian continent. He was one of the four who reached Termination Lake in 1856, and accompanied Gregory's expedition overland to Moreton Bay. He accepted the directorship of the Botanical Gardens of Melbourne in 1857, which office he held till 1873, raising that institution to high repute and establishing scientific relations with all parts of the globe, in order to introduce useful and rare plants into the colony, and to make known Australian plants 335