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 labours, efficiently aided and cared for by a loving wife-the niece of his old friend, Dr. Hugh Falconer.

The first public recognition of his services, both to science and the State, was accorded him at the beginning of the present year, when he received the honour of kuighthood, with the nnanimous acclaim of the scientific world. But he was, alas! not destined to bear his honours long, aud, after some months of great physical weakness, he died on June 23rd, 1896.

Of his personal amiability, his devoted friendship, and his charm of manner, this is hardly the place to speak: but all those with whom he was brought into contact will agree that in Sir Joseph Prestwich we have lost not only one of the great pillars of geological science, but a geologist whose mind was as fully stored with accnmulated knowledge as that of any of his contemporaries, and one who was always ready to place those stores generously and freely at the disposal of others J. E

GEORGE JOHNSON was born in Novembor, 1818, at Goudhurst, in Kent, and he received his education at the Granmar School there. In 1837 he paid a visit of some weeks to an uncle who was a medical practitioner in Cranbrook, and bocame so enamoured with the life of a country doctor that he decided to join his uncle as au apprentice. There he remained for two years and a half, and then entered the medical department of King's College, London, with which institu- tion his nane has been so intimately connected ever since. His college life was a highly distinguished one; hc obtained numerous prizos and scholarships both at the College and at the University of London, where he took his degree of M.D. in 1844. At King's Colloge Hospital he served as clinical clerk to Dr. Todd, and dresser to Sir William Ferguson; later on he became house physician, house surgeon, and, in 1843, resident medical tutor. At the end of his college conrse he was elected an Associate of King's College.

This briliant academical career altered his intention of becoming a conntry practitioner, and he decided to remain in London. In 1846 he became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians, and four years later was elected a Fellow. At the College of Physicians he filled many important offices, including those of Examiner in Medicine, Councillor, Censor, Vice-President, Goulstonian Lecturer, Lumleian Lecturer, and Harveian Orator. In 1862 he was appointed a Senator of the University of London; in 1872 be became a Fellow of the Royal Society; and, in 1884, President of the Royal Medical and Chirnrgical Society.

His appointments at King's College Hospital were those of Assistant Physician (1847), Full Physician (1856), Professor of