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OBITUARY.
It will be learned with great regret that
Dr. Samuel Dougan Bird died on Sunday
at his residence, in Kensington-road, South
Yarra. His health had been failing for
souie time. Dr. Bird, who for more tnan 40
years had been a leading figure in medicine
and surgery iu Australia, had a varied and
distinguished life. He was bom in Novem
ber, 1832, in Lichfield, England, and after
graduating in his profession he became resi
dent-assistant physician at the' Brompton
Hospital. At the outbreak of the Crimean
War Dr. (then Mr.) Bird accepted a posi
tion as surgeon on the British medical staff
attached to the Turkish army. Subsequently
he received the Crimean medal, the Sebasto
pol clasp, the Turkish war medal, and the
Order of the Medjidie. On the declaration
of peace in 1856 Dr. Bird returned to Eng
land, and practised his profession in Rich
mond, Surrey. In February, 1861, being in
ill-health, he came to Melbourne, and found
the climate so beneficial that he settled
here, practising as a specialist in lung
diseases. For a long time he was lecturer
in materia medica and therapeutics in the
Melbourne University, and subsequently he
occupied the chair of the theory and prac
tice of medicine. For over thirty vears he
was chief medical officer of the A.M.P. So
ciety in Victoria, and in 1869 he was pre
sident of the Victorian Medical Society. Dr.
Bird published several valuable medical
works. He leaves a widow and a family, of
whom Mr.' Fred Bird, the well-known sur
geon, is one. ■
Mrs. E. Amos, one of the pioneers of Tas
mania, died at the residence of her daughter,
Mrs. J. Izod,. Raglan-street," Ballarat, on
Sunday. The deceased lady, who jyas well
to her ninety-sixth year, came oiit from
land in the Greenoch, which reached
pania in 1826. She was married to the
Ir. John Amos, at St. David's, in
«blrt, on Mai-eh 7, 1833. Mrs. Amos, who
* "eleven children and 35 grandchildren,
ed in Ballarat about twenty years ago.
.Ir. John Howard Angas, son of one of
the founders of South Australia, and him
self one of the wealthiest men in that state,
died on Tuesday night, in his eighty-fourth
year. The deceased gentleman was a leading
South Australian pastoralist and was
famous for his prize stock, especially short
horn and Hereford cattle. He also imported
stud horses, merino and Lincoln sheep, and
Berkshire nigs. Mr. Angas was a large
hearted philanthropist, and gave thousands
of pounds to various educational, religious,
and benevolent inEHtuMoos in Aus
tralia. - . ;'
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