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of London, a Ptllow of which he became in ]8fi6. He was 

 in 1856 appointed assistant obstetric physician to Gruy's Hospital, 

 being in 1868 made full physician and lecturer in that subject, 

 and on relinquishing the more active portion of this task lie was 

 in 1883 made consulting obstetric physician. In 1888 he ac- 

 cepted the inA'itation to become obstetric physician and lecturer 

 at 8t. Mary's Hospital, and at the end of the term was appointed 

 consulting obstetric physician to that institution also. He was 

 for many years physician to the Eoyal Maternity Charity, and 

 to the Koyal Infirmary, Waterloo Road. He was President and 

 Orator of the Hunterian Society in 1879; and during the years 

 1872-1876, and again in 1889-1893, served as examiner in 

 Obstetrics to the University of London and the Royal College of 

 Physicians. 



Dr. Hicks was a frequent contributor to the pages of numerous 

 volumes aud Societies' publications, both medical and scientific, 

 and published papers in Italian, American, and Australiaa 

 journals. Among his better-known books may be named the 

 ' Combined Internal and External Version,' and (in conjunction 

 with Ja^'. Samuelson) the ' Earthw'orm and the Common House- 

 Ply,' and the ' Honey Bee,' well known treatises published in the 

 sixties, some of the illustrations to which were engraved with his 

 own hands. He was from youth an ardent student of nature ; 

 and among his scientific papers may be recalled those dealing 

 with the "Eyes of Invertebrata," the "Circulation in the 

 Uterus," and the " Anatomy of the Human Placenta." To the 

 publications of the Koyal, Linnean, and Microscopical Societies 

 he contributed numerous papers on both Botanical aud Zoological 

 subjects, — ranging from Lichens and Mosses to Volvox and 

 the unicellular Algie, Protozoa, and the sense-organs of Insects. 

 Nor was he deficient as a student of and writer upon physio- 

 logical subjects ; while the practical and applied side of his work 

 revealed itself in his invention of several apparatus U'^eful in 

 nursing and conducive to the welfare of the sick. He was 

 the founder of the Lymington Ambulance Centre, and in London 

 delivered lectures to ambulance classes. Pupil of Gull, friend 

 aud fellow student of "Wilks, Habershon, Cooper Poster, and 

 Daniel Hooper, some of whom shared his early devotion to 

 the study of natural science ; amiable, cheerful, methodical, 

 and versatile, always busy, and like most busy men ever ready 

 to assist his fellows, he has left us a brilliant record of noble 

 work largely performed for its own sake. He was in 1862 

 elected a Eellow of the Eoyal Society, and was also an Hon. 

 Fellow of the Obstetrical Societies of Berlin, Edinburgh, and 

 Philadelphia, as of the American Gynaecological Society, while 

 but a lew months before his death he was made an Honorary 

 Eellow of the Obstetrical Society of London. 



He was elected a Eellow of the Linnean Society on 1st June, 

 1852, and died 28th August, 1897. 



