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the time of his death), and by his strenuous exertions and the 

 exertions he incited in the faithful band of contributors he gathered 

 around him, he succeeded in raising the prestige of the Journal to 

 a unique position, and constituted it a most valuable asset to the 

 Society. 



The first number of the Journal for which he was solely 

 responsible was that for April, 1902, whilst the passing of the 

 proofs for the present one occupied his latest working hours. 



A graduate in Arts and Medicine of Cambridge, King's College 

 Hospital shared with the University in fostering that keenness in 

 Microscopy which occupied so large a share of his life's work. 

 Pathology, both naked-eye and microscopical, early claimed his 

 energies, and he was undoubtedly seen at his best in the post- 

 mortem room or laboratory ; but, at the same time, he was a sound 

 clinical teacher, and made his mark in the Out-patient Department 

 and in the wards of the Westminster Hospital — the staff of which 

 he joined in 1888, and where for many years be held the dual posts 

 of Physician and Physician Pathologist. He was also Pathologist 

 to Queen Charlotte's Hospital. 



In the Medical School of Westminster Hospital he held succes- 

 sively the posts of Lecturer in Forensic Medicine, in General 

 Medicine, and finally in General Pathology. Some years ago he 

 was appointed " Eeader in Morbid Anatomy " in the re-constituted 

 London University. 



Dr. Hebb leaves behind him a widow, but no children, since 

 his only daughter died a little over a year ago. 



An appreciation written by a medical colleague, and which 

 appeared in the " British Medical Journal " of May 29, contains 

 the following paragraph, which so exactly describes the man and 

 his work that we cannot refrain from quoting it :— 



" Of his own work in pathology, none but those who worked with 

 him will ever appreciate its worth ; he wrote but little, though his 

 experience was great and his memory very remarkable. His modesty 

 was so ingrained that the value of his observations was discounted 

 by a reluctance to publish that owed something also to a rather 

 cynical sense of the fleeting value of many contributions to the 

 professional press. . . . Scholar and gentleman, his teaching will 

 long bear fruit in the work of generations of students who owe 

 their fundamental ideas to him." 



