PERSONAL. 
Personal. 
PROFESSOR J. DOUGLAS STEWART. 
Scotland has contributed greatly to the elevation of the veterinary 
profession, and has been the training ground of many distinguished 
professors and practitioners. Australia has benefited materially by 
the liberal educational facilities which that country has provided, and our 
Universities and other educational institutions owe it primarily to the 
Scotch colleges that instruction in veterinary science has been well- 
founded here. The name of Professor J. Douglas Stewart, of the 
Sydney University, may be cited as a case in point. He is but one of 
very many who-has advanced the knowledge and the status of the 
profession in the Commonwealth. ; 
Professor Stewart was educated at the Sydney Grammar School. 
Afterwards proceeding to Edinburgh, ‘the gained, in 1893, the diploma 
of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. He also gained a 
number of prizes at the Royal (Dick) Veterinary College. His studies 
abroad revealed exceptional ability, and were rewarded by gold medals 
for veterinary medicine, veterinary surgery and obstetrics, pathology 
and helminthology, the Dick Bursary for highest marks in various class — 
competitions throughout the curriculum, Third “ Fitzwygram ” prize, 
and the Highland and Agricultural Society’s medal for best essay read 
and defended before the Veterinary Association of the College. It is 
of interest to note that the subject of the essay was “ Diseases of Aus- 
tralian stock.” 
Upon returning to Australia, Stewart practised with his father in 
Sydney for several years, and gave a great deal of time to teaching, 
and to work of a semi-public character. He acted as lecturer at the 
Sydney Technical College, and was ‘honorary veterinary surgeon to the 
Zoological Society of New South Wales. In 1898, New South Wales 
was threatened with invasion by the cattle tick, and he was then 
appointed veterinary surgeon to the Department of Agriculture. 
Becoming associated with Dr. Frank Tidswell, Government» Miero- 
biologist, an immense amount of work was done in connexion with a 
scientific investigation of tick fever and protective inoculation. Respon- 
sible duties then fell upon him in quick succession. Some of his appoint- 
ments were adviser to the Chief Inspector of Stock on quarantine 
methods and procedure; representative of New South Wales at numerous 
Inter-State Conferences; and in connexion with the framing of regula- 
tions under the Commonwealth Quarantine Act governing the introduc- 
tion of imported stock. 
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