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THE death is announced of Edgar Ravenswood Waite at Hobart, Tasmania, during the nineteenth meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science. Mr. Waite was born at Leeds in 1866, and at an early age took a keen interest in natural science; he was eventually appointed curator of the Leeds Philosophical Society, and was joint author with the late W. D. Roebuck of a work on “The Vertebrate Fauna of Yorkshire.” He took an active part in the organisation of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, and at one time was joint-editor of its well-known organ the Naturalist. In 1892 Mr. Waite was appointed zoologist to the Australian Museum, and shortly afterwards accepted the appointment of Curator to the Canterbury Museum, New Zealand. Afterwards he accepted the directorship of the Government Museum at Adelaide, South Australia. Two years ago he returned to Europe, and after seeing the various museums on the continent and America, he visited his native place at Leeds, and was entertained there by many of his former colleagues.
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S., T. Mr. E. R. Waite. Nature 121, 177 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121177a0
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