James Bonwick, F.R.G.S.,
WlLL be well remembered by many Adelaideans whose residence here dates back to a period anterior to the year 1852, when the rush to the Victorian diggings became universal. In that year Mr. Bonwick, who was then engaged in teaching, joined in the exodus, and never returned to South Australia. He is a prolific writer, as the following list of his works shows:—"Discovery and Settlement of Port Phillip;" "William Buckley, the Wild White Man;" "John Batman, the Founder of Victoria;" "The First Twenty Years of Australia;" "Port Phillip Settlement;" and a "Geography for Australian Youth." The latter, published here in 1845, has met with approval from those interested in educational matters. Mr. Bonwick is now resident in Surrey, England, and engaged, as heretofore, in adding to the popular literature of the day.
E. J. Catlow
ARRIVED in Adelaide in 1855; died at Mount Gambier, in March, 1885. He was an accomplished Latin, French, and German scholar; and his translations from the German poets were much admired when they appeared in the daily press. Mr. Catlow was of a singularly active turn of mind, and shortly after his arrival in the colony he turned his attention to the construction of magic squares, and after much research discovered a method of forming them of any required dimensions. These rules were so ingenious that a paper on the subject, written by him, was read by Mr. C. Todd before the Adelaide Philosophical Society. Mr. Catlow was a teacher under the Education Department for many years, and master of the Finniss Vale, Yankalilla, and Compton Downs Schools.
