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OBITUAEY. 



Richard Gbainger Hebb, M.A., M.D. Carab., F.E.C.P. Loud. 



1848-1918. 



Consiiltiug Physician and Physician Pathologist to the 

 Westminster Hospital. 



The announcement of the death, on May 12, 1918, of Dr. E. G. 

 Hebb brought a deep sense of personal loss to a wide circle of 

 ■scientific colleagues and friends, felt with particular keenness 

 by the Fellows of the Eoyal Microscopical Society, to whom 

 Dr. Hebb had endeared himself by his tact and geniality, no less 

 than by his erudition and intimate acquaintance with microscopical 

 lore during the thirty-three years he had been connected with the 

 Society. 



His association with the Society was not only lengthy, it was 

 particularly close and intimate. Elected an Ordinary Fellow in 

 November, 1885, he was appointed a few years later to a seat on 

 the Council, and soon became a powerful factor in guiding the 

 deliberations of that body. 



In 1S92 he became co-Secretary with Dr. Dallinger, and for 

 nearly twenty years he was virtually responsible for the conduct of 

 the Society's affairs. After the resignation of Dallinger, in 1907, 

 Hebb became in name, as lie had long been in fact, the senior 

 Secretary, and had as associate secretaries, first, Mr. Gordon, and. 

 subsequently F. Shillington Scales. In 1911 ill-health compelled 

 him to resign his post, and he was elected a Vice-President. 

 During the time he held office, Hebb proved himself an ideal 

 Secretary, and the Society, which has lost a devoted officer, has 

 hardly yet realized the extent of the debt it owes to his exertions. 



But his work for the Society ante-dated his Fellowship by 

 many months, for it was quite early in 1885 that the then Secretary, 

 Sir Frank Crisp, who was engaged in re-organizing the Journal, 

 enlisted Hebb's services on his staff, and henceforth he was a 

 consistent and regular contributor, and personally prepared nearly 

 all the abstracts dealing with " Technique " that appeared in its 

 pages. On the death, in 1902, of A. W. Bennett — the Lecturer on 

 Botany at St. Thomas's Hospital — Hebb succeeded to the editor- 

 ship of the Society's Journal (a post which he continued to hold at 



