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ADELAIDE IX I \ "KKsn y \\l) MEDICAL SCHOOL. 



The University of Adelaide, the youngest and small- 

 est of the Australian universities, was incorporated in 

 1874. It commenced work two years later with the 

 Arts course. Other schools were gradually added until 

 the university was able to give its students, besides de- 

 grees in arts, degrees in law, medicine, science, music, 

 agriculture and engineering. It receives a substantial 

 government aid and. has been endowed by a number 

 of handsome donations and bequests, among them one 

 of $480,000 by the late Sir Thomas Elder. The Elder 

 Conservatory of Music, opened in 1898, commemorates 

 this munificent gift. Its present attendance does not 

 exceed 400, of whom about 120 are medical students. 

 The primary branches of the medical school are taught 

 in separate buildings. The anatomy building, the real 

 home of Professor Watson, is a large one-story brick 

 building. Here he dwells among his students from 

 morning until dusk, often unconscious of the lunch 

 hour, his mind bent on unraveling the mysteries of 

 human anatomy and in supervising, directing and en- 

 couraging the students in their work. If any new dis- 

 covery is made in anatomy anywhere in the world he is 

 sure to learn of it, test it, and make use of it in his 

 teachings. He takes special delight in demonstrating 

 to his students Byron Robinson's utero-ovarian circle. 

 He fully appreciates the importance of applied anatomy 

 and never loses an opportunity to show the intimate 

 relationship between it and operative surgery. A visit 

 to Adelaide without seeing and knowing this inter- 

 esting man would be about as unprofitable as a 

 journey to Eome without seeing the pope or at least 

 making a visit to the Cathedral of St. Peter. Another 

 most interesting member of the medical faculty of Ade- 

 laide University is Professor Stirling, professor of 

 physiology and director of the natural history museums. 

 A combination of these two important offices makes 



