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 encouraged to further exertions nearer home by Mr. W. Fane De Salis, late of Sydney, returned to England, where he remained till his present appointment to the chair of Anatomy at the Adelaide University, founded by Sir Thomas Elder, who, boarding the R.M.S. Pekin in which Dr. Watson arrived, was the first to welcome him back to his native land and extend to him an Australian hospitality.

Victor Dumas, NE of the pioneers of the Mount Barker district, died December 27, 1882, aged seventy-six. Coming as he did from the French nobility, and being well educated, first at Merchant Tailor's School, and subsequently at Cambridge, he was admirably fitted for the position of a public instructor of youth, and when he fell on troublous times in his native land he came to South Australia, took up his abode in the then sparsely populated town of Mount Barker, and followed the natural bent of his inclination, namely, the profession of a teacher. He was a man of great intelligence, well read, and regarded quite as an authority on times, events, and histories. As a Latin scholar he was probably unequalled in the colony, and he carried off a widely contested prize in a competition in Latin verse. It is stated that he was related to the famous novelist Dumas.

Faustino Ziliani S a native of Brescia, Italy, where he was born March 27, 1848. Although he had exhibited great interest in music, it was not until his ninth year, through delicate health, that his elementary studies commenced. His first preceptor was the celebrated Maestro Alessandro Soletti, under whose tuition he made considerable progress. Having a good contralto voice his services were much in request in