THE 



Transactions 



OF 



The Royal Society of South Australia 



(Incorporated.) 



Vol. XLIII. 



Obituary Notice. 



with frontispiece. 



It is with profound regret we refer to the death of one 

 of our most eminent and helpful Fellows, the late Sir E. C. 

 Stirling, Kt., C.M.G., F.R.S., M.A., M.D. (Cantab.), 

 F.R.G.S., C.M.Z.S. He was elected a Fellow on October 4, 

 1881, a member of Council in 1882, and a Vice-President in 

 1883. Resigning this post in 1884, because he was leaving 

 the State, he was re-elected in 1885 a member of Council, in 

 1888 Vice-President, and in 1889 he was chosen President. 

 Directly his term of office expired he was again made a 

 member of Council, and was repeatedly re-elected until 1900: 

 so that he was in office for about eighteen consecutive' years. 



From the first he took an active and prominent part in 

 the affairs of the Society; in fact, we find him in the chair 

 within about four months of his election. Having been 

 recently appointed Lecturer on Physiology at the University 

 he showed and explained one of his laboratory instruments, 

 Williams' Freezing Microtome; and being also a surgeon he 

 exhibited some kangaroo tendon, and indicated its advantages 

 as a ligature for tying vessels in operations. 



He went to England in 1884 for a few months, partly to 

 secure the most recent and perfect apparatus for conducting 

 physiological observations, and these on his return he ex- 

 hibited and described to the members. 



In 1886 he showed a preparation of the genitalia of a 

 female kangaroo, demonstrating the young attached by its 

 umbilical cord, so proving it to be produced and born in the 

 same manner as other mammals. 



During 1889, the year of his Presidency, he was not once 

 absent from the gatherings of the Society, and we find him 



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