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received his medical education, graduating at Glasgow in 1844. 

 He soon afterwards came to Australia, and settled first in 

 Adelaide, where he practised his profession for a short time. 

 He then came to Melbourne, where he established himself 

 first in Stephen Street, and then in Collins Street, and was for 

 several years known as a successful practitioner and magistrate. 

 He was one of those who met at the Mechanics Institute on 

 the 17th June, 1854, and founded the Philosophical Society of 

 Victoria, in which he served in various years as member of 

 Council, Treasurer, and Vice-President. In the end of 1861 he 

 left town and settled at Wood's Point, where he was appointed 

 Coroner, Registrar, and Public Vaccinator, and followed profes- 

 sional pursuits also. When the glory of Wood's Point waned, 

 Dr. Iffla returned to Melbourne, and became a citizen of South 

 Melbourne, where he not only enjoyed a good practice, but took 

 an active part in municipal, magisterial, and political afiairs, and 

 was mayor of the city when the new Town Hall was opened by His 

 Excellency the Marquis of Normanby, in 1881. He was also an 

 official visitor of the Yarra Bend and Sunbury Lunatic Asylums. 

 He had travelled a good deal, and his extensive information, 

 genial manners, and instructive conversation contributed to secui-e 

 for him the high esteem of a large circle of friends. He had been 

 for some time in delicate health, and took a trip to Queensland to 

 recruit it. Shortly after his return, however, he had an attack of 

 congestion of the liver, which unfortunately terminated fatally 

 on the 14th of September, 1887. 



Balfour Stewart, P. U.S. 



In common with the scientific world at large, our Society has 

 to lament the loss of Professor Balfour Stewart, F.E.S., on the 

 22nd December, 1887. It is long, since he was a member of the 

 Koyal Society of Victoria, but it is pleasing to note the fact that 

 he was an original member of both the Victorian Institute and 

 the Philosophical Society of Victoria in 1854, which bodies were 

 combined in 1855, under the name of the Philosophical Institute of 

 Victoria, which, in 1859, received the Poyal permission to take 

 the title of the Royal Society of Victoria. The second paper read 

 before the Philosophical Society of Victoria was by Mr, Stewart, 

 on the 10th September, 1854, " On Certain Laws Observable in 

 the Mutual Action of Sulphuric Acid and Water." Of this only 

 an abstract was published. Two other papers of his appear in the 

 first volume of its Transactions for the same year, one " On the 

 Influence of Gravity on the Physical Condition of the Moon's 



