
NATURE 
II! 

silic he free eee) in some cases, a secondary 
aolinite being formed. This association of kaolinite 
and bauxitic matter in the same series of deposits 
calls observations made by the Geological Survey of 
and on the Cainozoic beds of Co. Antrim (Mem. 
n the Interbasaltic Rocks, p. 51, 1912). In both 
, titanium dioxide is a prominent constituent of 
hive ; Mr. Wilson (p. 12) shows that it is present 
Tutile and anatase, less commonly as brookite, and 
ymetimes in combination in sphene. He traces its 
jrigin to the augite of the basalts ; in Ireland it has 
been attributed to the decay of ilmenite. 
_ The new industry now developed in Ayrshire, in 
the manufacture both of refractory bricks and of 
‘alum, is a satisfactory result of the official researches 
ere described. CB: As TC. 





































Anderson Stuart: his Relation to 
Medicine and to the Empire. 
erson Stuart, M.D., Physiologist, Teacher, Builder, 
- Organiser, Citizen. By William Epps. Pp. xv+177. 
_ (Sydney, N.S.W. : Angus and Robertson, Ltd., 1922.) 
HE career of Sir Thomas Peter Anderson Stuart 
] has few parallels in medical or other annals- 
student career in Edinburgh under Turner, Ruther- 
ford, and Lister was brilliant ; his building and organ- 
isation of the Sydney school, and what they provoked, 
form a university romance of the first order. Dean 
for thirty-six years, he dominated medical history in 
ia in a manner that few, if any, individuals will 
ever be able to imitate. During that period the number 
of students in medicine increased from four to nearly 
one thousand ; and for this apotheosis of his depart- 
nent Anderson Stuart planned and built. Without 
y demerit to the brilliance of assistants in his faculty 
to the capacity of men in other faculties of the 
niversity of Sydney, it is no exaggeration to state 
that phenomenon was the offspring of Anderson 
tuart’s imagination and the fruition of his consummate 
beming and effective individual manceuvre. 
In this sphere his work was monumental. The 
ndards set by Anderson Stuart in his school involved 
emergence of such a university in Sydney as stands 
y—not merely a local inspiration, but the most 
pminent centre of Anglo-Saxon culture in the 
‘Southern Hemisphere. This achievement carries 
va tuart’s work beyond the confines of institutional 
endeavour, and places it in the rank of empire-building. 
‘. For Australia, his work had a distinctive result in 
| society-moulding, in that it was the initial step towards 
the quasi-aristocratic rank which the medical pro- 
fession now enjoys in that country, and in that it 
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foreshadowed and conditioned the elevated professional 
status which dentistry, veterinary medicine, nursing, 
midwifery, and massage are rapidly assuming in that 
continent. 
Such are the more outstanding facts upon which 
Stuart’s claims to remembrance will rest. As a 
physiologist and a man of science he was not dis- 
tinguished, nor even as a teacher. Although he was 
a forceful lecturer, his words were selected for their 
rhetorical effect, and his lecture material was that of 
an earlier generation of physiologists. A claim to 
teaching ability must rest on more than rhetoric—it 
must rest upon the capacity to arouse the hearers to 
be doers ; and doers in physiology as a result of Ander- 
son Stuart’s teaching are difficult to discover. 
To present a man’s autobiography with the force, 
frankness, and vividness that Mr. Epps has done, 
vindicates his claim that it was “a labour of love.” 
He has carried out with nice selection a difficult piece 
of composition, which will always bring credit to him- 
self and to the long list of subscribers. But Epps is 
not a Strachey. Although he has described many of 
Anderson Stuart’s characteristics in the introduction, 
and although others crop out in the faithful narrative 
of events, the fearless character sketch is still unpenned. 
The achievement of a man is only explicable in terms 
of his character, and can be appreciated best when the 
record is frankest. Such incidents as the expectation 
of his name at the “top of the class list,” and such 
self-appreciation as his own declaration that “I had 
the essentials of a good teacher born in me,” reveal 
the character of Stuart more warmly and nakedly. 
A towering ambition and a Napoleonic will to tyrannic 
power, together with sufficient selfishness for the 
realisation of these twain—these very qualities are at 
one and the same time the key to his achievements, 
to the oppositions they evoked, and to the relentless 
manner of their crushing. 
Anderson Stuart will always stand as a beacon- 
light and a landmark in the history of a university 
and a country which have a long future. 
Raymonp A, Dart. 
Our Bookshelf. 
The Home of the Indo-Europeans. By Prof.H.H. Bender. 
Pp. 58. (Princeton: Princeton University Press ; 
London: Oxford University Press, 1922.) 4s. 6d. 
net. 
Tue original home of the Indo- -Europeans is a well- 
worn subject, and Prof. Bender has treated it generally 
on the lines of philology, familiar to readers of works 
like Schrader’ s ‘Prehistoric Antiquities of the Aryan 
Peoples.” He suggests, but does not grapple with, 
the question whether there was an Indo- -European 
iti 
