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In issuing tlie sixtli part of the '* Pharmacof^rapliia Indlca,'* 

 it is with much regret we have to announce the death of the 

 senior author. This sad eyent, caused by influenza combined 

 with cystitis, took place on the 30th April 1892, at his re- 

 sidence on Malabar Hill, Bombay, in the fifty-eighti year of 

 his age. William Dymock belonged to the west of England^ 

 and was educated first at Bristol, then at Rugby, and after- 

 wards at Oxford where he took a B.A. dee^ree. After a course 



of medical studies, he became M.R.CS. Eng., he then joined 

 the Indian Medical Service, and was appointed to the Bombay 

 Presidency in 1857. He saw active service during the Mvitiny 

 with the Kathiawar Field Force against the Wagheers, and was 

 present at the capture of Dantal Hill. For two years he was 

 attached to the Ilidian Navy, and visited the ports of the 

 Persian Gulf and the East African Coast. In 1868 he served 



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on the Committee for publishing the Pharmacopoeia of India, 

 and at the time he was Acting Resident Surgeon at the Euro- 

 pean General Hospital. After taking two years' furlough to 

 England he was appointed in 1871 to be Principal of the 

 3Iedical Store Department, Bombay, and in this capacitj^ he 

 laboured for nearly twenty years, until his retirement from the 

 service on 30th April 1890. During this time he devoted all 

 his energies to the study of materia medica and pharmacy. 

 He largely increased the local manufacture of galenical pre- 

 parations, and introduced modern and improved machinery in 

 the Depot laboratory. For his skilful and efficient manao-e- 

 ment he was thanked by Government on. three separate 

 occasions. Dr. Dymock was proficient in Arabic, Persian, 

 Sanskrit, Hindustani, Mahratti and Guzrati ; he was familiar 

 with Greek and Latin, and corresponded freely in French, 

 German and Portuguese. He was a Fellow and Examiner of 



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