ANNIVERSAEY ADDRESS. 11 



Me. Edward S, P. Bedford joined this Society in 1864, the 

 year after his arrival in Sydney, and contributed in 1866 to the 

 then Philosophical Society " Eemarks on the support of the 

 young of marsupial animals in the pouch," which he illustrated 

 by a diagram and various marsupial bones. To the Transactions 

 of the Eoyal Society he contributed in 1867 a paper " on the 

 reappearance of scurvy in the merchant service," and in 1868, a 

 communication " on dry earth conservancy." 



He had been for several years before an active member of the 

 Eoyal Society of Tasmania, of which he remained a Corresponding 

 member to the time of his death on 24th Pebruary, 1876, at 

 the age of 67. 



He had held some important medical offices in Tasmania, and 

 was at one time a member of its Legislative Council. On his 

 departure from that Colony an Address was presented to him 

 from the leading members of his profession, and another from 

 the Judges, President, Speaker, Ministers, Magistrates, and 

 Clergy, bearing witness to his ability and public usefulness, and 

 to the high qualifications of his social character. 



On arrival in New South "Wales he was received with respect 

 for his previous reputation, and obtained several official appoint- 

 ments which he held at the time of his death. In all my 

 intercourse with him I found him kind, gentlemanly, and intelli- 

 gent, and a warm supporter of the two Eoyal Societies, in each of 

 which he had been an administrator. He was Honorary 

 Treasurer and member of Council of this Society from 1867 

 to 1874, To his praise be it said, he established in Tasmania a 

 hospital of his own of which he took the management, his medical 

 brethren on his departure testifying " their entire confidence and 

 esteem, which he had gained by the unvarying exercise of 

 unswerving integrity and the strictest professional honor and 

 courtesy in all the numberless instances in which they had been 

 brought together." 



He was son of the senior Chaplain in Tasmania, the Eev. Dr. 

 Bedford, and brother-in-law of our late highly respected Chief 



