4 H. G. SMITH. 
Mr. Lewis Whitfeid, the well known Sydney Barrister, 
was elected to this Society in 1879. He was called to the 
Bar in 1888, and was in active practice to the last, as he 
appeared in Court on the morning of the day of his death. 
The suddeness of his death on the 28th June, when playing 
golf at Rose Bay, was extremely sad. He was a man 
highly respected, and his active assistance in the cause of 
scientific effort was shown by his long association with 
this Society. 
Mr. John Plummer, who died on the 9th March, 1914, 
was elected a member of this Society in 1896. He was 
connected with journalistic effort in New South Wales for: 
more than thirty years, and had previously been occupied 
with literary and statistical work in England. At one 
time he was sub-editor of the ‘‘ Morning Advertiser,’’ which 
position he relinquished to join the staff of the ‘‘Graphic.”’ 
In 1879 he came to Sydney as the representative of that 
journal at the International Exhibition in the Garden 
Palace. His sympathies were always with the efforts of 
this Society, and with scientific work generally. He was 
in his eighty-fourth year at the time of his death. 
Dr. C. Russell Watson, who died on the 24th January, 
1914, was elected a member of this Society in 1876. For 
a great number of years he carried on his duties as a 
medical practitioner in Hrskineville, near Sydney, where 
he gained the respect and regard of all those who came 
into contact with him. His many acts of kindness and his’ 
benevolent actions generally, caused him to be highly 
esteemed, and the district has lost a good resident as well 
as this Society a good member. 
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The new buildings of the Institute of Tropical Medicine 
at Townsville, Queensland, were opened on June 28th. 
This institution has been established to deal specially with 
