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THE Melbourne Argus announces the death, in May or June last, of Mr. E. J. Banfield, at the age of seventy-one. Mr. Banfield was born in Liverpool on September 4, 1852, and was the son of Mr. J. W. Ban-field, of Ararat, Victoria. After having been occupied for some years as a journalist,, he retired in 1897, with his wife, to Dunk Island, in lat. 17° 55′ S., between the Great Barrier Reef and the Queensland coast. Here he lived the life of a recluse, occupied in cultivating tropical produce, and in observing Nature, but he found time to describe his experiences in three books, “Confessions of a Beachcomber” (1908), “My Tropic Isle” (1911), and “Tropic Days” (1918).
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H., S. Mr. E. J. Banfield. Nature 112, 244 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112244b0
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