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tions of the Royal College of Surgeons, he was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy at his hospital, and soon afterwards Lecturer on Morbid Ana- tomy and Physiology. In 1843 he was nominated Honorary Fellow of the College of Surgeons, and was successively Hunterian Professor of Surgery, Member of Council, and Pre- sident of that body. At the same time he retained his connection with his hospital, of which he was in suc- cession Assistant Surgeon, Surgeon, Lecturer on Surgery, and Consulting Surgeon. Meanwhile his private prac- tice had become extensive, and his reputation as a consultant was gener- ally recognised. His chief interest lay in surgical pathology, to which subject he directed his most important course of lectures, and his special - distinction lay in the treatment of tumours and malignant growths, in the removal of which his skill was in the first rank among his contempo- raries. His reputation as a lecturer was unrivalled, and although he could lay claim to little original research in either physiology, or surgery, he was unequalled in gauging the discoveries and theories of others,, and in eluci- dating them for his pupils.

Sir James Paget, who was created a baronet in 1871, received distinctions of every kind. He was appointed Ser- geant Surgeon to the Queen and Sur- geon to the Prince of Wales, a member of the Senate and Vice-Chanoellor of the University of London, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and a member of the Institute of France, Honorary D.C.L. of Oxford and LL.D. of Cambridge, President of the Clinical Society, Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, and of the Pathological Society, served on several Royal Commissions, and was President of the first Medical Congress held in England. In 1844 he married Lydia, daughter of Rev. Henry North, domestic chaplain to the Dufce of Kent. He retired from practice and active works a few years before his death, and for two years had been in failing health.

On the 1st, at Abbazia, aged 59, Anna von Helmholts, daughter of Robert von Mohl, Professor of Law at Heidelberg. Married, 1861, Hermann von Helmholts, the distinguished Professor of Physics. Her salon in Heidelberg and Berlin was the centre of German intellectual society. On the 2nd, at Bournemouth, aged 70, Lieutenant-Oeneral Charles Cherry Mlnchin, B.I.A. Entered 6th Madras Infantry, 1849 ; served on Punjab frontier during the Mutiny, 1854-5 ; appointed Political Agent at Bahawalpur, 1866, and transformed a bankrupt State into a flourishing province; transferred to Lahore, 1880. On the 2nd, at Broomham Park, Hastings, aged 71, Sir Anchltel Ashburnham, eighth baronet, Agent to the Duchess of Cleveland. Married, 1859, Isabella, daughter of Captain George Bohun Martin, R.N., O.B. On the 2nd, at Uppercross, Reading, aged 73, Kajor- General Joseph Jordan, C.B. Educated at Tonbridge School ; entered the Army,

Lord Ludlow. — Henry Charles Lopes, third son of Sir Ralph Lopes, second baronet, was born at Devonport in 1828, and was educated at Winchester and Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1850. He was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1852, and commenced practice as an equity draughtsman and conveyancer. In 1857 he joined the Western Circuit, and took up court work both at Westminster and on circuit, and be- came Recorder of Exeter, 1867. In 1868 he was returned unopposed for Launceston as a Conservative, and retained the seat until 1874, when he contested Frome for his party and carried the seat, previously held by the Liberals, by nearly a hundred majority. In the House of Commons, however, he made no mark as a speaker or debater ; but as a recognition of his services to the party he was promoted to the Bench in 1876, and assigned to the Common Pleas Divi- sion, afterwards merged in the Queen's Bench Division. On the death of Sir Richard Baggallay he was advanced to the Court of Appeal, and held the post of Lord Justice of Appeal until 1897, when on his retirement he was created Baron Ludlow. In 1854 he married Cordelia Lucy, daughter of Erving Clark, of Efford Manor, Ply- mouth, and died at Cromwell Place, South Kensington, on Christmas Day, after a short illness, although for a long time he had been an invalid.

Sir James Paget, Baronet, F.B.S., D.C.L., LL.D., who died at Park Square, Regent's Park, on December 30, was born on January 11, 1814, at Yarmouth, where his father, Samuel Paget, was a small merchant. His elder brother, George, had already chosen the medical profession as his career, and his example was followed by his younger brother, who after serving his time with Mr. Costerton, a local medical man, entered at St. Bartholo- mew's Hospital, London, in 1834, and distinguished himself so greatly that in 1886, having passed his examina-