Ixii PEOCEEDINGS OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



Dental Science led him to contribute to a journal called the 

 * Dental Eeview,' in which was republished the great work of John 

 Hunter on the teeth, with notes appended to the text bearing on 

 modern research in relation to the same subject. The notes ap- 

 pended to the first part of this undertaking were contributed by 

 Dr. Webb. 



A few years later Dr. Webb became one of the editors of 

 the * Medical Times and G-azette,' of which he ultimately became 

 the chief editor. 



His death was very sudden. He had some time past suffered 

 from bronchial disease and from feebleness of the heart ; but 

 for the last three years he had been better in health, though 

 subject to occasional attacks of extreme feebleness after exertion, 

 with passing symptoms of angina pectoris. On the evening of the 

 25th of December, 1873, after reaching his home, on the occasion of 

 some slight physical exertion, he complained of numbness in the 

 left hand and arm, and to relieve the symptom went to the piano- 

 forte and played for nearly an hour. Later he wrote and read 

 untn past midnight ; then he retired to bed, and, with a re- 

 turning pain in his chest, died all but instantaneously and 

 without a struggle. 



He was elected a Pellow of this Society on the 21st of January, 

 1858. 



