features of Lake Callabonna and its fossil remains were sub- 

 mitted to our Society and were printed as Memoirs, of which 

 they constitute the whole of our first volume. 



In 1894 he accompanied the Horn Expedition to the 

 MacDonnell Ranges as medical officer and anthropologist. To 

 him was allotted the task of dealing with the ethnological 

 material then collected, and in nearly 160 pages of the fourth 

 volume of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Aus- 

 tralia, 1896, may be found the results of his investigations. 

 Doubtless we will remember his exhibition of quite a large 

 number of ceremonial sticks and stones from that region, and 

 the public lecture delivered under the auspices of our 

 Society, in which he revealed the manners and customs of its 

 inhabitants, illustrated with very fine diascopic photographs 

 taken in Central Australia. He and Mr. Zietz dealt with 

 all the vertebrata obtained by the Elder Exploration in 1893, 

 and published their results in our Transactions for 1896. 



In 1895 he was appointed Director of the Museum as a 

 salaried officer, and held this post until the end of 1912, when 

 he resigned (being followed by Mr. E. R. Waite), and in 

 April, 1914, was made Honorary Curator of Ethnology. Sir 

 Edward Stirling was, perhaps, as much interested in the 

 anthropology and ethnology of Australia as in its palae- 

 ontology. He gradually accumulated a fine library of works 

 dealing with its history and its aboriginals, and with the 

 inhabitants of adjacent islands. He collected in our Museum 

 a large series of native skulls and skeletons, implements of 

 war and peace, and, in fact, everything pertaining to their 

 primitive life, and he spent his last three or four years as 

 honorary curator of this department in cataloguing, arranging, 

 and displaying this exceedingly rich collection. The exhibit 

 of these in the top gallery of the Australian wing of the 

 Museum is a monument to his expert knowledge of this 

 branch of science, as well as an enduring testimony to his 

 persevering industry and special enthusiasm. 



In 1898 he proposed a resolution in one of our meetings, 

 which was carried unanimously, "That whereas the aborigines 

 of South Australia are rapidly disappearing, it is desirable 

 in the interests of science and of our successors that a com- 

 prehensive and enduring record of the Australian race in 

 fullest anthropological and ethnological sense should be 

 undertaken before it is too late." Whenever any paper 

 dealing with this subject was presented for acceptance the 

 Council felt it had in Dr. Stirling an expert to whom it could 

 be submitted for an estimate of its value. It is to his zeal and 

 patriotism that we possess a very large number of valuable 

 and even unique examples of ceremonial ornaments and other 

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