1763 health, however, soon broke down and after practising spectacles, a fact which was often the cause of injury to for some years in Ireland he settled to private practice their eyesight. He therefore gave out that he would supply in London. He married in 1865 Agnes Letitia, youngest any applicant whom he considered deserving with a pair of daughter of the late William Robinson, LL.D., of Totten- spectacles, and in addition he personally saw the applicants ham, Middlesex, of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-law, J.P., and tested their sight. He was a firm supporter of the local and deputy-lieutenant of the county. He became a Fellow cottage hospital and dispensary, the former of which institu- of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society and served as tions was mainly founded by members of his family. a member of its council in 1894-95 ; he was also a member of the Clinical Society of London. Dr. Fitz-Patrick was, DEATHS OF EMIB’E1T FOREIGN MEDICAL MEN.-The however, far more than a talented physician. He was a deaths of the eminent men are ,,aLant in its highest sense and a linguist of high order, following foreign medical conversing in Italian, German, and French almost as announced :-Dr. Heinrich Laudahn, Director of the at the of 70 flnently as in his own language, while his attainments as Lindenburg Asylum, Cologne, age years.-Dr. the of a classical scholar were far above the average. More- Leopold Grossmann, doyen Hungarian ophthalmo- at the over, he could read modern Greek with as much ease and logists, age of 79 years.-Dr. Korsakoff, Professor of Mental Diseases in the of at the as English. He possessed to a remarkable extent University Moscow, age pleasure of F. the faculty, so essential to members of the profession, of 48 years.-Dr. Benjamin Leonhard, Professor of Gyna3- winning the confidence and attachment of his patients as cology and Children’s Diseases in the Baltimore Medical well as the love and esteem of countless private friends. College. Unselfish almost to a fault, his thoughtfulness for every- one and his generosity and kindness to all who required help were proverbial, and it may truly be said of him that his right hand never knew what his left hand did. His two MedicalNews. books, "An Autumn Cruise in the 2Egean. or Notes of a Voyage in a Sailing Yacht," and "A Transatlantic Holiday," proved him the owner of a facile and graceful pen. He was ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.- a brilliant conversationalist and a ’l’aconte1t’l’ with an abso- The following gentlemen have passed the First Professional lutelyiwonderful memory for reciting either prose or poetry. Examination for the Diploma of Fellow :- short he was a In man of varied attainments, a steadfast Joseph Ebenezer Adams, St. Thomas’s Hospital ; Robert Young and true friend, and a devoted husband. Aitkin, M.D. Glasg., Glasgow University; Kenneth Anderson, Guy’s Hospital ; Charles Todd Andrew, Aberdeen University; Austin Lewis Badcoëk and Eric Bayley, Charing-cross Hospital ; JULIUS M.D. M.R.C.P. LOND. Edward Augustine Bell, King’s College Hospital; Percy Stanley ALTHAUS, BERLIN, Blaker, M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond., Calcutta Medical College THE death is announced of Dr. Julius Althaus in his and University College, London ; Harold Burrows, M.B. Lond., sixty- M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond., St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; John eighth year. He was born at Detmold, in Germany, in 1833, Beuzeville Byles, M.B., B.C. Cantab., M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond., Westminster John L.R.C.P. where his father was a Lutheran minister. At the of Hospital; Cameron, M.R.C.S. Eng., age Lond., M.B., Ch.B. Edin., Edinburgh University ; James 17 years young Althaus entered the University of Bonn, in- Alane Coupland, Yorkshire College, Leeds; Maurice A. M. to but before he devoted himself Fitzmaurice- Kelly, St. Mary’s Hospital; William Robert tending study classics, long Gibson, M.R.C.S. Eng., L R.C.P. Lond., and John Dawson to the subjects of medicine and natural philosophy. In the Hartley, M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond., St. Bartholomew’s and 1851 he commenced to medicine at the King’s College Hospitals ; Douglas Gray, Charing-cross Hospital ; year study University Edward Erskine Henderson, M.B., B.C. Cantab., Cambridge of Gottingen, and thence went to Heidelberg and Berlin, University, Guy’s, and King’s College Hospitals; Joseph Tre- at which last place he was selected by the great physiologist mayne Hicks, Guy’s Hospital; Somerville Hastings, Gerald Muller to accompany him on a voyage of research to Sicily. Stephen Hughes, and William Warwick James, L.D.S.Eng., taken the of M.D. at Berlin he went to Middlesex Hospital; Robert Jacques, University College, Liver- Having degree Paris, pool, and King’s College, London ; John Charles Grant Ledingham, Vienna, Prague, and London to perfect his studies. He finally B.Se. Aberd., Aberdeen University; William Archibald Logan, settled in London, becoming a Member of the Royal College M.B., Ch.B. New Zeal., M R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond., New of in 1860. devoted himself to Zealand University, Dunedin, and King’s College, London ; Physicians Having mainly Harold Ashton Lyth, University College, London; James McClure, the study of the nervous system and to electrical treatment, M.B., C.M. Glasg., M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond., Glasgow he was for some time assistant to the late Dr. R. B. University; Arthur Ronald McLachlan, M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Todd in In 1866 he founded the Lond., Guy’s Hospital ; Thomas Holmes Middleboro’, M.D. King’s College Hospital. M.R.C.S L.R.C.P. Toronto for and in Toronto, Eng., Lond., University, Hospital Epilepsy Paralysis Regent’s Park, Canada, and Middlesex Hospital; Harry Overy, Edinburgh and where he acted as physician for 28 years and to St. Andrews Universities ; John George Pardoe, M.B., C.M. Aberd., which in 1894 he was elected M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R. C. P. Lond., Aberdeen University and King’s unanimously consulting phy- John Herbert M.B. M.R.C.S. sician. He a voluminous of books College London; Parsons, Lond., was writer, chiefly upon Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond., University College and Royal Infirmary, electrical treatment and diseases of the nervous system, Bristol, and University College, London; Carrick Hey Robertson, and his book upon ’’ Failure of Brain Power " reached a fifth and Robert Pugh Rowlands, M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond., Guy’s the circulation Hospital; Percy Wm. George Sargent, M.B., B. C. Cantab., edition, being largely among laymen. Apart M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond.. Cambridge University, and St. from purely professional knowledge he was a man of varied Thomas’s Hospital; Arthur Reginald Schofield and Hugh Barnard attainments and a good musician. He was a firm believer in Willoughby Smith, London Hospital ; William Edward James the value of and for a and last year while T uboy, Guy’s Hospital ; Herbert George Tymms, M.B., B.S. Melb., necessity holiday, L.R.C.P.Lond., Melbourne University, St. Bar- one in met with an to his knee M.R.C.S. Eng., enjoying Switzerland injury tholomew’s Hospital, and King’s College, London ; Sidney James which was the beginning of his fatal illness. Gout super- Wareham, M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond., L.S.A.Lond., Charing- vened, followed and from which last cross Hospital; Noel Everard Waterfield and Herbert Victor by phlebitis peritonitis, St. Bartholomew’s John he succumbed. His death is mourned a Wenham, Hospital; Harry Watson, complication by M.R.C.S. Eng., and L.R.C.P. Lond., University College and Royal large circle of patients and friends. Infirmary, Liverpool, and King’s College, London; Moses Thomas Williams, London Hospital; Bertram Shera Wills, M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond., St. Thomas’s Hospital. W. T. RADFORD, M.D. T.C.D. Of the 113 gentlemen who presented themselves for this examination, 14 passed and 69 were referred. Ox May 19th there died at Sidmouth Dr. W. T. Radford at The following gentlemen having passed the r ecassary the patriarchal of 89 He was the son of age years. PeterI sxaminations and conformed to the by-laws and regulations, Radford, a well-known physician in the West of England atlave been admitted Fellows of the College in the order the beginning of the present century. Dr. Radford wasI )f their seniority as Members :- educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he took the Thomas Richard Mulroney (Major I.M.S., Bengal), M.D. Malta, L.R.C.P. 3. S. and London, of M.D., and blessed with means he Edin., Bombay King’s College, degree being private date of Membership, Jan. 19th, 1880 ; Frederic Victor Milward, never practised his profession as a means of livelihood, M.B., B.C. Cantab., L.R.C.P. Lond., Cambridge University but devoted himself to science and art. He was one and St. Thomas’s Hospital, Member Feb. 7th, 1895; Hugh Mallin- of the earliest members of the Athenasum Club and son Rigby, M.B., B.S. Lond., L.R.C.P.Lond., London Hospital, Member Feb. John Shields M.B , B.Ch. Oxon., travelled a 7th, 1895 ; Fairbairn, great deal upon the continent, studying eccle- L.R.C.P.