Passing Of Great Man

Mr. A. J, Vogan: A In the ’twenties of this century I lived near the family circle of the Till yard’s and I was astounded at the amount of accuracy of the entomological work being carried out by the head of that family of highly-cultured persons.

Although a small-sized, and delicate man, Dr. Robin J. Tillyard. when not doing microscopic investigations, or writ ing articles, was away exploring the more or less dangerous and difficult gullies near Hornsby—where few white men had been, and no scientists. He was always adding to the list of microscopic lepidop tera, or finding something previously un known about their life-history. Then he tackled his The Insects of Australia and Netv Zealand, for which his equally won derful wife did the thousands of ex quisitely-drawn illustrations. How they found the time to do what they did always astounded me, for they carried on their social life at the same time.

Dr. Tillyard was a member of all the British and foreign scientific societies worth belonging to, as well as being F.R.S.. whose famous motto: “NulHus in verba .” was so characteristic of this accurate and painstaking man, who rose to the highest scientific nositions known in this part of the world. Those famous words of Euripides rise to the mind upon reading of his sad death, in a motor accident in N.S.W. in January: “To die. is no doubt painful to him that dies, but if with glory to the living, it is a pride and glory to his family.*' Mr. Dan Leahy, youngest brother of the famous New Guinea prospecting and exploring family, returned to Australia by the Aorangi at the end of January from a world tour. After visiting his relatives in Toowoomba he will return to New Guinea to continue work on his alluvial gold claim near Mount Hagen.