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qualified as a licentiate of the Society o£ Apothecaries in 183-Jj 

 and as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1835. 

 Afterwards he studied for some time in Scotland, and in 1846 

 graduated as M.A. and as M.D. at King's College, Aberdeen, 

 taking his Fellowship of the Eoyal College of Surgeons in the 

 following year. He became a Member of the Eoyal College of 

 Physicians of London in 1851, and a Fellow of that College 

 in 1869. For many years Dr. Cockle was connected with the 

 Grrosvenor-place School of Medicine (now incorporated with the 

 medical school of St. George's Hospital), first as lecturer on 

 pathology, and subsequently as lecturer on medicine at the time 

 Mr. (afterwards Sir) Spencer Wells was lecturing on the principles 

 and practice of surgery. During the outbreak of cholera in 1866, 

 Dr. Cockle had many cases of this disease from one of the most 

 infected districts in London under his care and treatment at the 

 Eoyal Free Hospital, of which he was then physician. In 1873 

 he delivered the centenary address of the Medical Society of 

 London, selecting for his subject "A Eeview of some recent 

 Doctrines concerning the Mind." He subsequently held the office 

 of councillor, and in 1897 president of that Society. Dr. Cockle 

 contributed many valuable papers on diseases of the heart and of 

 the organs of respiration to the Transactions of the Medical 

 Societies and Journals. He also edited Weber's ' Manual of 

 Auscultation,' and was the author of an essay on the poison of 

 the Cobra di capello, and of several medical pamphlets. He was 

 elected Fellow of the Linnean Society March 18, 1858, and was 

 also a Fellow of the Eoyal Medical & Chirurgical Society, of the 

 Eoyal Astronomical Society, and of the Society of Antiquaries, 

 and. a Corresponding Member of the Philosophical Society of 

 Queensland, and of the Society of Scientific Medicine, Berlin, He 

 was buried at Brompton Cemetery, November 20, 1901. 



Colonel Sir Heivry Collett, K.C.B., was present at our last 

 Anniversary Meeting, and took part in it, by moving the vote of 

 thanks to the President for his Address. Although it was evident 

 from his appearance that his health was much impaired by his 

 recent illness, the news of his death on 21st December, 1901, was 

 a sudden shock to his many friends. 



He was born on March 6, 1836, and obtained his early education 

 at Tonbridge School ; he entered the Bengal Army in his twentieth 

 year, and served in Lidia for a period of nearly forty years. He 

 was quite young in service when the Indian Mutiny broke out, 

 and the next year, 1858, he took part in the Sittana Expedition, 

 on the North-west Frontier. In the Jaintea war of 1862-63 he 

 was badly wounded in the ankle, which necessitated the use 

 of an iron support, causing him to walk with some difficulty 

 the rest of his life. In 1867-68 he took part in the Abyssinian 

 war, and there first became acquainted with the present Earl 

 Eoberts of Candahar. On the outbreak of the second Afghan 

 war in 1878, the then Sir Frederick Eoberts procured the 



