CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR 



Melbourne, the capital of Victoria, I found a 

 smaller city than Sydney but one of greater business 

 activity, suggesting to me comparisons with Detroit 

 and Belfast. At the University, under the general 

 Baldwin direction of Dr. Baldwin Spencer, professor of 

 Spencer Zoology and professorial head, I gave some lectures 

 on educational methods and on "War and Man- 

 hood." The faculty, like that of Sydney, was largely 

 composed of men of superior scholarship. Spencer is 

 widely known both as naturalist and as student of 

 the native Blacks; the late Professor Kernot in Civil 

 Engineering, Tucker in Greek, and Ewart in Botany, 

 I also came to esteem highly. 

 Weiton In Melbourne I met for the first time Thomas Wel- 



stanford ^qj^ Stanford, younger brother of Leland Stanford, 

 who went to Australia in the '6o's on a very success- 

 ful financial venture in lamps and oil. Afterward, his 

 general liking for the land and a horror of seasickness, 

 which had nearly caused his death, led him to remain 

 in Melbourne. He never returned to the United 

 States, although persistently retaining his American 

 citizenship and patriotic sentiments. Ultimately he 

 became (for Australia) a rich man, notwithstanding 

 which fact he was a good deal of a recluse, his wife 

 having died early, leaving him without children. 



Paintings and bird-fancying gave him great pleas- 

 ure, so that he brought together a considerable gal- 

 lery and developed a fine aviary. In later life, also, he 

 became interested in "psychic phenomena" and sup- 



