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The next year, the subjects were Physiology and Zoology, 

 and at the examinations, in May, 1864, Mr. Stewart once more 

 obtained a double first, 1st Class in Animal Physiology, 1st Class 

 in Zoology, and again the Bronze Medal of the Department. 



Mr. William Gray, M.R.I. A., said that during his forty-seven 

 years acquaintance with Mr. Stewart he had been afforded many 

 opportunities of studying his characteristics. One of Mr. Stewart's 

 greatest assets was his tenacity of purpose, and the persistency 

 with which he carried out his own ideas. The speaker narrated 

 several stories relative to Mr. Stewart's life and to his work, one of 

 which is perhaps worth recording. " During one of the riots of 

 the ' seventies,' Stewart, probably quite unconscious of the dis- 

 turbed state of the town, spent his afternoon upon the hills in 

 search of fossils and other geological treasures. He was returning 

 home in the evening when a constable, on the look-out for law- 

 breakers, observed the bulgy appearance of his pockets and 

 promptly accosted him. Having briefly examined his pockets, the 

 guardian of the peace was amply satisfied that here indeed was a 

 ringleader of the rioters, and he forthwith constrained Stewart to 

 accompany him to the nearest police station. There, however, 

 Stewart's identity was quickly established, and he was at once set 

 free to carry home his hard-earned booty." Mr. Gray expressed 

 the hope that the papers read that evening would be printed in 

 cxtenso in the Club's Proceedings. 



Mr. William Swanston, F.G.S., and Mr. John Hamilton 

 having both spoken, Mr. John Brown, F.R.S., referred to his 

 contact with Mr. Stewart in connection with the Museum of the 

 Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society, and testified to 

 the great care and interest evinced by him in his work as Curator 

 of that establishment. 



