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 Captain John Finlay Duff AS associated with some of the earliest and most memorable incidents in South Australian history. His ship, the "Africaine," arrived here June 1, 1837, and sailed in August of the same year for Tasmania. He will be well remembered as a leading merchant and ship owner, and he was for some years Harbor-Master at Glenelg. He was a man of great public spirit, and took active interest in all that concerned the land of his adoption. His death took place at Glenelg, on May 15, 1868, in his 73rd year.

Edward H. Rennie, D.Sc., S the son of Edward A. Rennie, Esq., Auditor-General of Nqw South Wales. He was born at Balmain, near Sydney, in 1852, and received his early education at the Fort-street Public School and the Sydney Grammar School. He graduated B.A. at Sydney University in 1870, taking the medal for chemistry and experimental physics, and first-class honours in mathematics. He graduated M.A. at Sydney in 1876, taking honours in chemistry and the medal for mathematics. From 1871 to 1875 he lectured on chemistry and experimental physics in the Sydney Grammar School^ and from 1876 to 1877 in the Brisbane Grammar School. In July, 1877, he went to London, and in June, 1882, graduated a D.Sc. at the London University, taking organic chemistry as the principal subject and inorganic chemistry as the subsidiary subject. During 1879 and 1880 Dr. Rennie was Demonstrator of Chemistry in St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, and in 1881 acted as Demonstrator of Chemistry in the Science Schools, South Kensington. In 1882 he acted as assistant to Dr. H. E. Armstrong, F.R.S., at the London Institution. Dr. Rennie is a Fellow of the