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On Saturday, July the 10th, one of our Vice-Presidents— 
Deputy Surgeon-General Day—after a long and painful illness, 
died at his residence in Cheltenham. 
I gather from an excellent notice of his life, in the 
“ Cheltenham Examiner,” that he was the third son of Mr W. 
Day, of Hadlow House, Sussex, and was educated under Dr 
Kennedy at Shrewsbury School; and on leaving there he 
studied Medicine at St. George’s Hospital, London, and went 
to India in 1852 as Assistant-Surgeon in the Madras Army. 
He saw active service in the Burmah campaign, for which he 
received a medal. His leisure was devoted to his favorite 
pursuit—Natural History ; and he was made Inspector-General 
of Fisheries in India, and published several works on the fishes 
of the most important rivers of that country. 
In 1877 he retired from the Madras Medical Staff and 
settled in Cheltenham, and commenced to investigate the 
history of the fishes and fisheries of Great Britain, and gave the 
result—in 1880—83—of his researches in a work of two 
volumes, entitled, ‘‘The Fishes of Great Britain and Ireland.” 
In 1881 Dr Day received a Silver Medal from the Norwich 
Fisheries Exhibition for works on Ichthyology, and a Gold and 
Silver Medal from the Edinburgh Fisheries Exhibition in 1882. 
He was appointed, in 1883, Commissioner for the Indian 
Department at the Fisheries Exhibition, and for his own 
exhibits he received three Gold Medals, and the Ist prize of 
£100 for “ Treatise on Commercial Sea-fish.’”’ The services he 
rendered to the Exhibition were fully recognized in the follow- 
ing letter to the Secretary of State for India :— 
“T am requested by His Royal Highness the Prince of 
“Wales (the President) and by the members of the Executive 
*“ Committee of the International Fisheries Exhibition, to 
“convey cordial thanks for the aid rendered by the Govern- 
*““ment of India in this undertaking ; and I would here ask to 
‘““mention Dr Francis Day, who has so ably carried out the 
“duties entrusted to him by the Government. 
*< Besides the services rendered by Dr Day, as Commis- 
“‘ sioner of the Indian Empire, it isa duty which devolves upon 
