PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS. 7 
During the past year death has been unusually busy amongst 
our medical members. By the death of Dr. Fortescue, M.B., of 
London University, and Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, 
this community has lost one of its most prominent members of the 
medical profession, and the Society one of its most respected 
associates. Dr. Fortescue was twice a member of the Council, 
viz., in 1867, 1868, and he was three times elected a member of 
the Committee of the Medical Section ; but being a busy man, he 
only found time to prepare one paper for the Section, viz., “ Upon 
a series of Experiments on a normal Eye, with the watery extract 
of Duboisia myoporoides.” He was for several years a Trustee of 
the Australian Museum, in which institution he took great interest. 
On account of his genial and kindly disposition he was a general 
favourite, and his loss is regretted by a wide circle of friends. 
In Dr. T. Cecil Morgan we have lost another much respected 
member of the medical profession. Dr. Morgan joined the Society 
in 1876, and was a constant attendant at the meetings of the 
Medical Section ; he was twice elected on to its Committee, he 
regularly took part in the discussions, on several occasions brought 
forward matters of interest, and twice communicated papers to it. 
Dr. Morgan was more particularly distinguished for his attain- 
ments and position here in respect to ophthalmic science. 
I regret to have to record the deaths also of two of our younger 
members, in the persons of Dr. Arthur Annesley West, M.B., of 
Dublin University, and of Dr. George J. Renwick. The latter 
was a student of the University of Sydney, where he took his 
degree in Arts. He afterwards went home and studied medicine 
at Edinburgh, where he took the degrees of M.B. and C.M. 
Dr. Renwick gave great promise of occupying a prominent 
position in his profession, and what would probably have been a 
distinguished career has been arrested by his premature death. 
The Colony has sustained the loss of a valuable life and tle 
Society of a much respected member by the death of Sir George 
Wigram Allen, K.C.M.G., the late Speaker of the Legislative 
Assembly. Sir G. Wigram Allen joined the Society some fifteen 
