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In Dr. J. E. MORGAN the Society has lost one of its 

 most distinguished members. Born in 1828, he died after 

 a year's illness in 1892. He was the second son of the 

 Rev. Morgan Morgan, Vicar of Conway, and was educated 

 at Shrewsbury School, and University College, Oxford, 

 where he took his degree in Arts in Classical Honours in 

 1852, and in Medicine in 1861. In the same year he 

 became a member of the Royal College of Physicians, 

 was elected to its Fellowship in 1868, and to its Council in 

 1 887. The years following his B. A. degree he spent chiefly in 

 the Western Highlands, and here, while reading for ordina- 

 tion, he passed much of his leisure time in visiting the sick- 

 poor in the Islands of the Hebrides, and was thus led to 

 study medicine, with a view to relieving their sufferings 

 He finally determined to follow medicine as a profession, 

 and proceeded to St. Mary's Hospital, London. He after- 

 wards embodied his medical experience in the High- 

 lands, and especially in the remote Island of St. Kilda, 

 in an important paper, published in the Medico-CJiirurgical 

 Reviezv in 1861, in which he called attention to the preva- 

 lence of infantile lockjaw and the rarity of consumption. 

 The former disease he ascribed to the filth of the dwellings, 

 and the immunity to the latter to abundant ventilation and 

 to the presence of peat smoke. He also investigated the 

 singular affection known as the 'boat-cough,' a kind of 

 influenza arising amongst the natives on the arrival of 

 strangers from the mainland. He came to Manchester in 

 1861, and at once threw himself into undertakings for the 

 amelioration of the condition of the people. He became 

 Physician to the Salford Hospital,and Lecturer on Pathology 

 at the Royal School of Medicine, and in 1863 he took the 

 post of Hon. Sec. to the Manchester and Salford Sanitary 

 Association, and during his term of office he wrote the 

 Weekly, Quarterly, and Annual Reports on the Health of the 

 town. In 1864 he joined a movement, that was started by this 



