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published in extcnso in the Journal. A perusal of the fourteen 

 pages it occupies gives one but a faint idea of how wonderfully 

 keen an observer Dr. Rake was. Everything interested him, 

 from the ant-lions which the native boys jerked out of their pits 

 with pieces of string, the queer little families of frogs at 

 Mahabalipuram up to an old brass gun, and the gigantic tomb of 

 Gol Gornbaz in Bijapur. Dr. Rake, however, principally occupied 

 himself with butterflies, and together with his friend Mr. Gatty, 

 then Attorney-General, made a large collection which was named 

 by Dr. Crowfoot. These appeared as a preliminary list in 

 the pages of the Journal of April 1892. In March last year 

 he contributed a highly instructive paper on " The Schizomycetes, " 

 which must be fresh in the memories of most of our mem- 

 bers and subscribers. His last communication was a " Note 

 on the Breeding of the Night Jar " read at the meeting 

 last June and published in the October number. Dr. Rake 

 always regretted his inability to take part in the various 

 excursions which members of the Club are frequently undertaking, 

 but his duties at the Asylum were too arduous, he was, however, 

 always pleased to hear about them, and on one occasion joined 

 several of the members in a butterfly huntingexpedition. Soon after 

 the new rules were adopted by the Club in September 1893 a strong 

 feeling was manifested among the members that Dr. Rake 

 should be the President for the year 1894-5, and it was therefore 

 not a matter of surprise to any one at the memorable meeting 

 of August, 1894, that Dr. Rake was elected by a very large 

 majority to the Presidental Chair, and few who were present 

 at that gathering will forget the modest demeanour with which 

 Dr. Rake accepted the office, promising that he would do his 

 best to promote the welfare of the Society, or the applause 

 amidst which he assumed his seat, for he had ingratiated himself 

 with all the members by his quiet, unostentatious, demeanour, 

 and the respect which he accorded to the opinions and views 

 of others. This was the last meeting he attended. The island 

 was at that moment passing through an epidemic of what the 

 faculty were pleased to call "malignant, "but which laymen spoke 

 of as "yellow " lever an 1 Dr. Rake whose family had returned 

 to England a week or two before, as the most distinguished 

 medical man in the Colony, was called into consultation in 

 numerous cises, and long will be remembered the assiduous 

 care he exercised over his charges, and the tender sympathy 

 which he extended to many an afflicted household. From the 

 very first he, with his accustomed thoroughness, began the 

 study of the fell disease which swept away many so quickly 

 so silently, and mysteriously — in the cases of his own patients he 

 attended seven or eight times a day, and several times during 

 the night, and all this in addition to his regular work at the 



