PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 58, 8 November 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Two Sydneyites. Captain Elms and W. Elders, both with experience, have volunteered for Shackleton's Antarctic expedition next year, states a Sydney cablegram.

At a gathering of those connected with the various branches of the railway service to-day -in Wellington, Mr T*. Ronayne. retiring general manager, Avas presented with a number of handsome presents, including a silver tea and coffee service and dessert service from the officers, and a silver teaami coffee service and cutlery eant«=>n' from the Amalgamated Society of sT.ilway Servants. The Hon. Mr Herries 'Minister of Railways) made the presentations.

A London cablegram announces the death of Mr Alfred Russel Wallace. F.R.S., President of the British Land Nationalisation League. He was born in Monmouthshire in 1823, his father Leing of Scottish ancestry. With his elder brother he was a land surveyor and architect from 1838■ tp 1844. He went to the Amazon with Bates in 1848-52, and was in the Malay Archipelago 1854-62. Since then ,he had occupied himself with natural history, social science and scientific literature. He lectured in America in 1886-7. His publications include: "Travels on the Amazon." "Palm Trees of the Amazon," "The Malay Archipelago," "Natural Selection," "Miracles and Modern Spiritualism," "The Geographical Distribution of Animals," "Tropical Naure," ''Australasia," "Island Life,"

"Land Nationalisation," "Bad'Times,"

"Darwinism," "Vaccination a 'Delusion,'' "The AVonderful Century, its Successes and its Failures," "Studies, Scientific and .Social," "Man's Place in the Universe."