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fessional, literary and scientific, his able biographer Dr. William 

 Charles Henry is inclined to refer it to inherent mental qualities. He 

 died in November 1847, and bequeathed the residue of his property, 

 amounting to £25,000, to the Medical Department of University 

 College, London. 



James Kendrick, Esq., M.D., of Warrington, for many years 

 Senior Physician to the Dispensary and Infirmary of that town, 

 where he had established an extensive practice, became a Fellow of 

 the Linnean Society in 1802, and died in the spring of the present 

 year. 



He published in 1832 a little pamphlet entitled "Cursory Re- 

 marks on the present Epidemic [Cholera]." 



William Oliver Locke, Esq., M.D., of Norwich, was elected F.L.S. 

 in 1824, and died in the month of February 1846. 



John Morgan, Esq., was born at Stamford Hill, on the 20th of 

 January 1797. His father, William Morgan, was the late well- 

 known and distinguished Actuary of the Equitable Assurance Office, 

 an institution which owed its unprecedented success in great measure 

 to his talents and firmness. Having received his general education 

 at home, Mr. Morgan commenced his professional studies as an 

 articled pupil of the late Sir Astley Cooper. He became a Member 

 of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1819, and in 1824, at the early 

 age of 27, he was elected Surgeon to Guy's Hospital, at the school 

 of which institution he filled the Chair of Surgery for many years ; 

 and to his influence is mainly due the establishment of the Eye 

 Infirmary in connexion witii the Hospital. He was also a Member 

 of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons, which appointment 

 he received in 1843. 



Of his reputation as a Hospital Surgeon, as an Operator, and as 

 a Surgical Physician, if the term may be allowed, it is not necessary 

 on this occasion to speak at large. The voice of the profession has 

 however established his character as among the highest in all these 

 departments of professional practice. It is more to our present pur- 

 pose to refer to his scientific attainments and tastes, and particu- 

 larly to his pursuit of zoology and comparative anatomy. His 

 knowledge of British ornithology was accurate and extensive ; and 

 he formed one of the most complete and beautiful collections of 

 British birds in existence, which is now in the museum of the Cam- 

 bridge Philosophical Society. He devoted at one period much of 

 his attention to the subject of comparative anatomy, and the volumes 

 of the ' Linnean Transactions ' contain some papers on this depart- 

 ment of science, which show the acumen with which he always seized 



