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 444 ADELAIDE AND VICINITY Dr. t. k. Hamilton ijained all the clinical prizes conferred there in Medicine, Surgery, and Gynecology, as well as a special prize presented by Dr. Knaggs (now of Sydney), himself a former student of this hospital. This last honor was conferred upon the senior student showing the greatest proficiency for the year in all subjects. When a student in the Royal College of Surgeons, the subject of this notice was the recipient of a special prize in Medicine, presented by the Professor of Medicine in that institution. Dr. Hamilton received his first appointment in the north of Ireland, where he practised for a period of three years. Actuated partly by reasons of health, and probably also by ambition and an adventurous spirit, he resolved to remove to Australia. Choosing South Australia for his new sphere, he arrived in the Province in 1880, having previously taken the M.D. degree in the Dublin University, and obtained the Fellowship in the Royal College of Surgeons by examination. Soon after reaching the Province, Dr. Hamilton commenced the practice of his profession at Laura, in the Northern Areas, where he remained for a period of six years, obtaining a high reputation among the Northern farmers. Perceiving the value of certain special (]ualifications, he decided to further enlarge the range of his studies, and in 1886 returned to Europe. In the pursuit of the specialities he is now practising. Dr. Hamilton worked at first in Dublin under Dr. Swanzy. in whom he found an old friend, having acted in the capacity of his clinical clerk in the Eye Department at the Adelaides Hospital, Dublin, when a student at that institution. Subsequently, Dr. Hamilton spent some time in study at the Moorfields Ophthalmic Hospital, London, and at the Golden Square Throat Hospital, an institution which was then under the distinguished presidency of the late Sir Morell Mackenzie. Dr. Hamilton completed his special studies in diseases of the Eye, Ear, Throat, and Nose at Berlin under Professors Hirschberg, Schciler Uhltoff and Frankel ; and in 1888 was elected a member of the Ophthalmological Society of the L'nited Kingdom. Returning in the same year to Adelaide, where he had previously taken the M.D. ad cnndc?ii orac/?n)i degree at the University, Dr. Hamilton soon afterwards commenced practice in the city as a specialist in P^ye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Diseases, and rapidly established a large connection, which he still maintains and increases. In 1890 he succeeded the late Dr. Davies Thomas as honorary physician to the Throat Department of the Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, holding that appointment until the resignation of the honorary staff in 1896. In the same year (1890) Dr. Hamilton was appointed by the Cockburn Government a member of the South Australian Medical Board, of which Board he is now President, having been appointed to that position by the late Government on the resignation of Dr. Paterson, the late Colonial .Surgeon. In 1895 he was elected President of the South Australian Branch of the British Medical Association. He was chosen as one of the Vice-presidents of the Eye, Ear, and Throat Section of the F"ifth Intercolonial Medical Congress held in September, 1899, at Brisbane, and is now President-elect of the same Section of the Sixth Medical Congress, which is to be held in 1902 in Hobart. In 1899 he was appointed to succeed the late Dr. Whittell as a Director of the Australian Mutual Provident Society. Dr. Hamilton at present holds honorary appointments in connection with the Deaf and Dumb Institution, Brighton : the Blind Institution, North Adelaide ; the Orphan Home and House of Mercy, Walkerville ; and the Home for