A COLONIAL SCIENTIST.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 436, 19 February 1909, Page 5

A COLONIAL SCIENTIST.

*". HONOURED I)Y CAMBRIDGE" UNI- ■'"/■'; ; : '^VERSITY.';./^;y;/v;/;/'.'//V,>;; '(DY-'TBtEaßApn—rh'BSS COPYBIOnt J. /■• ;'//■' /:';/' /;/■!/; London,, February 17. ; ';/, Cambridge ■' University ■'} has■. bestowed / . a.. doptorshipof science upon.Dr. Btir!ing,v Professor of.-PhysiologyCat'Adelaide .University.-. •■ : Edward Charles Stirling has' been, 'professor of physiology .in the University of ■■Adelaide, since; 1900.' He was previously lecturer//on, physi6logy.frouvlß92, and director: of/the South; 'Australian/Museum,, since ISBS. He .'was;.for. sonie time senior surgeon of Adelaide. Hospital' and ■ lecturer on : clinical surgery at;. Adelaide University.'- He was elected, but did' not serve, as .president of the' first. Intercolonial Medical Congress at Adelaide ,iri : 1887, arid was. president of tne : Section of Surgery at second Intercolonial ■; Medical Congress in Melbourne, -1889, president, of' South Australian branoh ;bf., British' Medical; Association;-' 1889, and Royal'Sooiety of: South' Australia. .1890./.He is, a metnbcf of the. Council- of: the' University of Adelaide and/of the' Zoological was appointed'consulting. :irig surgeon to- Adelaide- Hospital in .1903 bud elected /president of -the Australasian: Medical ' Congress at ..Adelaide in 1905.. He .accompanied as-ethnologist the' Horn Scientifio Exploration-'Expedition, to Central Australia in 1891.: He is author of numerous contributions to'.medicdl anil scientific,journals; 'He received' 'a\ gold medal', from; the'. Queen, of /Holland .for. services';to sbience.:-, ; V,':.'-'.'' ''/ ,: ■;',•'.,;: "-.'•'"•■'..• "'■''