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General Hospital, Hobart. At the Intercolonial Medical 

 Congress, held at Brisbane in 1900, he was unani- 

 mously elected President ol' the Congress to be held 

 at Hobart in 1902, an honour which he did not live 

 to enjoy. 



Dr. Bright was an old and valued member of the 

 Royal Society of Tasmania, having been elected Fellow 

 in 1865, and a memVjer of the Council in 1897. He 

 was also President of the Medical Section of the 

 Royal Society. 



Hon. Charles Henry Grant, Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., 

 M.E.C. Died 30th September, 1901, in the 70th year 

 of his age. — Born at Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire, 

 England, on the 9th November, 1831, he was educated 

 at King's College, London, where he achieved distinc- 

 tion in mathematical studies, and he subsequently 

 gained large experience in Telegraphy and Railway 

 Engineering, both in England and in Canada. He 

 came to Tasmania in 1872 to superintend the con- 

 struction of the Main Line of Railway between Hobart 

 and Launceston, of which he acted as General Manager 

 until the line became the property of the State in 

 1890. He was elected a member of the Legislative 

 Council in 1892, was a leading member of many 

 public institutions, and was one of the representatives 

 of Tasmania at the Federal Convention held in 

 Adelaide, Sydney, and Melbourne in 1897-8. He was 

 elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Tasmania in 

 1872, and a member of the Council in 1880, and was 

 one of the original Trustees of the Tasmanian Museum 

 and Botanical Gardens, taking- an active and con- 

 spicuous share in all the duties which thus devolved 

 upon him. 



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