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CONTENTS Page Page The Australian Fauna and the On Dit . 51 Medical Student . 9 Commentaries 52 A Song of Experience 12 Mainly Heads .. 54 Memories of an Old Fogey . 12 Cases for Commentary 55 Duds and Derelicts .. 18 Ladies' Letter . 57 Editorial 19 Hospital and Year Notes— Business Page 20 Melbourne 59 M.S.S. Notes .. • • 21 Alfred .. 60 Annual Teams' Race and Dinner .. 24 St. Vincent's 61 Mick Doherty .. • • 25 Third Year 62 The Royal College of Surgeons, Second Year 63 London .. • • .. 29 First Year . 63 The Jacksonian Prize 33 A Day in the Life of a Mad Med. 64 The Origin of Bile Pigments and 65 the Mechanism of Production of Spicula . Jaundice .. • • 34 Correspondence 66 The First Splenectomy 37 Sports Notes— When I am Drunk .. 38 Cricket . 68 Some Aspects of Men and Life 39 Football . 70 "Cured" 40 Athletics 73 Toujours les Femmes 42 Rowing 74 Une Chronique Scandaleuse . 43 Tennis 75 The Daily Grind 46 Hockey . 76 The Criminal .. 47 Old Boys' Column 77 In Memoriam .. 48 Notices . 81 THE Melbourne University Press Board of Directors : Dr. E. H. Sugden (Chairman) ,.Professor R. J. A. Berry, Professor E. Scott, Mr. E. D. Ulrich, Mr. L. R. Ross, Mr. J. S. Coltman, Mr. Stanley Addison (Managing Director). The following facilities are now offered by the Press in its new Headquarters in the Central Buildings of the University 1. An exchange for second-hand books and sets of apparatus used by students in their courses. 2. A centre where Notebooks, Loose-Leaf Covers, Stationery, and all other University and College requisites may be obtained, and where new books may be ordered. 3. A fully equipped Post Office, where all customary postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and money order business may be transacted. 4. A Publishing Agency for the publication of books and magazines in association with Messrs. MacMillan & Co. Ltd. 5. A Circulating Library for the use of candidates for the degree of Master of Education. Publications of the Melbourne University Press 1. The History of White Australia Policy, by Myra Willard, M.A. Price, 10/6. 2. Social Progress, by Professor J. Alexander Gunn, M.A., B.Sc., Ph.D. Price, 1/6. 3. The Number System of Arithmetic and Algebra, by D. K. Picken, M.A. Price : Part I., 2/6 ; Parts I. and II., 5/-. 4. Practical Physics for the Use of Students of Natural Philosophy. Part I. Price, 6/-. 5. The "Melbourne University Magazine " and the " Speculum." Books now in process of Publication 1. The Psalms of David, by Dr. E. H. Sugden, M.A., B.Sc., Litt.D. 2. Comparative Studies in the Languages of the Melanesian Islands, by S. H. Ray, M.A. (in association with the Cambridge University Press). 3. The History of Australian Land Settlement, by S. H. Roberts, M.A. 4. A Bibliography of Australian Poetry and Verse, by Percival Serle. Address all communications to The Managing Director, The University Press, The University, Carlton Si Speculum Pitted, Inspice. tbe Zpeculum THE JOURNAL OF THE MELBOURNE MEDICAL STUDENTS' SOCIETY. Voarb of flbanagentent : of Editor H. C. MALING. Sub-Editor .. D. McG. STEELE. Business Manager H. MAUNDER. Assistant Manager L. J. WE STACOTT. 1Represe ntatives: The Faculty of Medicine PROFESSOR R. J. A. BERRY. Graduates DR. F. L. APPERLY. MR. H. R. DEW. Melbourne Hospital Clinical School . I. H. COWLING. St. Vincent's 91 J. C. ECCLES. A lfred N. B. WHITE. Women Students MRS. E. McDONALD-WHITTLE. MISS CANTWELL. 3rd Year L. HILL. 2nd Year G. 0. EWING. 1st Year D. DIXON. For Particular Men Special Consignment of Latest Suitings Just to hand The new materials come in a most magnificent range of exclusive patterns and distinctive color- ings. They include attractive Tweeds in latest effects, fine all wool and guaranteed Indigo Twills and Serges. which are always so serviceable and smart and are worn all the year round. Tailored to £8181- Order for PATTERNS, SPECIAL SELF-MEASUREMENT CHART AND TAPE ON APPLICATION. COLLEGE JERSEYS We stock all the leading schools'. Special shades made to order if required Order by Posl. We pay carriage. Phone 9840 (3 lines) Cr. SWANSTON and BOURKE STS., MELBOURNE THE LEVIATHAN PTY. LTD. 8 If tbe Zpeculum No. 114. JUNE, 1924 Che Australian fauna anb the finebtcat Ztubent. By Dr. COLIN MacKENZIE. 1. Significance of the Fauna. One hundred years ago there lived within a half-day's steam from our shores the Tasmanian nation—the most primitive race of people known to modern man. Isolated from the rest of the world, its members thought, till the advent of the white man, that they were its only inhabitants. By the year 1860 the last of the race had died. In a period of less than forty years the whole nation had been ruthlessly and completely destroyed, constituting one of the most colossal crimes our earth has known. What would we now give to have even a remnant of that race with us ? It has vanished never to return, and the records of habits, customs, and, above all, of physique and gait left to us 11. are meagre and incomplete. But to-day in Australia an even greater tragedy is being enacted, which will reach its conclusion within the next twenty years. I allude, of course, to the rapid disappearance of our unique fauna. Australia is known to scientists as "the land of living fossils." Here we have side by side the past and the present. With the advent of the "First Fleet" in 1788, a form of life was revealed corresponding to that which existed on the earth in bygone ages. Australia became isolated from the rest of the world. Life progressed in other parts, culminating in man. But in Australia, in the absence of com- petition, and with a favourable environment, life here remained stationary. The "highest" mammal, man, sees still living under natural conditions the two "lowest" mammals, the echidna and platypus. The apparent complexities of the human body are revealed in their simpler form. A study of our animals is really a study in living human embryology. But they are embryos in which we can study not only structure, but function on which structure depends. It can be truly said that there is not a problem in human anatomy and physiology on which a study of these animals fails to throw light.