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Show ! SAVANT WHO DRILLED CORAL ISLAND DEAD SYDNEY, N. S. W., March 3. The death was nnounced today of Sir Thomas Thom-as Anderson Stuart, distinguished physician phy-sician and scientist, and dean of the faculty of medicine in the University of Sydney. He was born In Scotland In 3856. Sir Thomas achieved wido publicity when he organized tho expedition of the Royal Society of London lo Funafuti, Funa-futi, an island of tho Ellico group in tho Pacific ocean. Tho expedition, by boring to a depth of ono thousand feet in coral rock, secured confirmation of the Darwinian theory of reef formation. forma-tion. oo |