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his father's profession. His keen love for geography and travel, fostered trebly by all the surroundings, proved too strong for his sedentary occupation in the dingy chambers of Lincoln's Inn; and so powerful did this become after vacations abroad that, having private means, he gave up the law, with the intention of visiting every country of the world; following, however, humbly in the footsteps of Humboldt, and devoting himself to a comprehensive study of scientific geography, of which, in its many branches, he was passionately fond. During his earlier travels he gave his attention mainly to ethnographical and zoological observation, and made extensive collections, sending home treasures from time to time. He has thrice been in the colonies, and travelled, apart from vacations spent on the continent, in Syria, through Palestine, Egypt, and North America, and has also visited India, Ceylon, the Cape of Good Hope, and other places en route to and from Australia. He came to Adelaide in 1876, and whilst here was engaged in the Surveyor-General's department on surveys in the Flinders Ranges and Murray Scrub. Whilst thus employed he added largely to his museum, studied and gained information of the customs of the natives, aided considerably by the kindness and experience of Mr. Jno. Ewens, of Morgan, and the late Mr. Taplin, of Point Macleay. This enabled him to take home a fine collection of their weapons, &c. He also, through his valued friend, the late Mr. Jno. Howard Clark, obtained specimens of nearly every shell found on the South Australian coasts. So extensive had his museum become that, after returning to England by the "Hesperus" in 1878, he offered it to the town of Stafford. It was accepted, and later a fine building was erected for its reception, adjoining the Borough Hall. The corporation of Stafford hold the "Wragge Museum" on lease for twenty-one years, Mr. Wragge subscribing towards its maintenance, and being honorary curator; and if during that time due care is taken of the collection, it is to become the