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Quebec Province^ and assisting other oommerdal enterprises. He represents Shefford, in the Domi- nion Parliament.

HUTCHINSON, Jonathan, F.R.S., was born in July, 1828, at Selbj, Yorkshire, and educated at Selbj. He was admitted a Fellow of the College of Surgeons in 1862. He was appointed President of the Hunterian Society in 1869 and 1870 ; President of the Pathological Society in 1879 and 1880 ; and has been Professor of Surgery and Pathology in the Boyal College of Surgeons from 1877, to the present time. This distinguished surgeon was a member of the Boyal Com- mission api>ointed in 1881 to inquire into the condition of the London hospitals for small-pox and fever eases, and into the means of pre- Tenting the spread of infection.

HUTCHINSON, Thomas Joseph, M.D.,P.E.G.S., was born at Stoney- ford, CO. Kilkenny, January 18, 1820. When he was about two years of age his parents settled at Enniscorthy. He was educated in the latter town, but pursued his medical studies in Dublin. After taking his degrees, he made two voyages — the first in 1850 — ^from Liverpool to the Old Calabar River in Western Africa as doctor to palm oil ships. Towards the end of 1853 he was for some time Act- ing Surgeon in medical charge of HJf.S. Alecto—^ war vessel of the West African squadron for crippling the slave trade — ^under the com- mand of Captain Crofton, £.N. He was Senior Medical Officer of the Pleifid in the Niger-Tshadda- Binue Expedition of 1854-55. In this exploration he successfully carried out his views — founded on four years* previous experience — about the prevention and treatment of African fever. In September, 1855, he was appointed Her Majes- ty's Consul for the Bight of Biafra ^-extending from Cape Formosa to Cape St. John — and, in the same month and year, received a like com-

mission for the Island of Fernando Po. He was Acting-Governor of Fernando Po for Queen Isabella of Spain, from January to July, 1857. He was elected a Fellow of the Boyal G^eographical Society in 1855 — of the Ethnological Society in I860— of the Boyal Society of Literature in 1861— of the Anthro- pological Society in 1863 — and of the Society of Arts in 1874. He is Vice-President d'honneur de Tln- stitut d'Afrique in Paris, and Honorary Member of the Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society. Before the last-mentioned, from 1852 to 1874, he read many papers on his West African and South American experiences. He was transferred, as Consul, to Bosario, in the Argentine Bepublic, on the 12th of July, 1861. By directions of Earl Bussell he proceeded to explore the Salado YtJley in search of wild cotton on the 25th Novem- ber, 1862, and returned to his post on the 10th of March, 1863. The result of that journey is set forth in a paper of his read before the Boyal Geographical Society in 1865. One of his papers before the Liverpool Literary and Philo- sophical Society was on the sub- ject of "Our Meat Supply from Abroad," read Jan. 9, 1871. He was transferred, as Consul, to Cal- lao, on the 20th October, 1870. Whilst at Callao he was nominated by President Pardo, one of the fif- teen Foundation F^ows of the Society of Fine Arts in Peru. When leaving his post here in May, 1878, on acooimt of failing health, he was presented with an Address by the Merchants, Capitalists, and other leading foreigners of Lima and Callao, in which he was com- plimented on his *' exhaustive Con- sular Beports, tending to the fur- therance of commercial relations ; on his efforts for improving the Hygiene of Callao, and on his labours in Archaeological Science, by his explorations amongst the Antiquities of Peru." This last