R. GREIG-SMITH. 



know that Australian science is being recognised, and we 

 congratulate Mr. Maiden and Prof. Pollock upon having 

 obtained the honour to which we all aspire. 



Our Society has during the past year done much good 

 work, and the papers which have been read at the monthly 

 meetings have been well up to the standard of previous 

 years. Our energies have been amplified by the formation 

 of a new Section, that of Public Health and Kindred 

 Sciences. This section had its first meeting in October in 

 the presence of our Vice-Patron, Sir Gerald Strickland, 

 Governor of the State. Under the chairmanship of Sir 

 Thomas Anderson Stuart, and with Dr. Willis as the sec- 

 tional secretary, the section has made some valuable con- 

 tributions to military public health. 



We have unfortunately suffered through the death of 

 several members, many of whom had been with us for very 

 many years, and while we miss them and regret their 

 departure, we realise that they have done their duty and 

 have advanced our knowledge and assisted in pioneering 

 the way for future generations. 



Ludwig Hermann Bruck was senior partner in a firm 

 of medical agents and importers. He founded the Aus- 

 tralasian Medical Gazette, and to him it owed the first 

 fifteen years of its existence, although it was considered 

 to be the official organ of the Victorian, South Australian 

 and New South Wales branches of the British Medical 

 Association. In 1894 he sold the Gazette to the New South 

 Wales Branch. Mr. Bruck enjoyed the confidence of a large 

 number of medical men in Australia, in his capacity as a 

 medical agent, and in 1896 he published a valuable though 

 small pamphlet dealing with the relations of the medical 

 profession with the Friendly Societies. He was elected to 

 the membership of the Royal Society in 1903, and he con- 

 tinued a member to the time of his death, on August 14th, 

 1915, at the age of 66 years. 



