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cotemporary of your President at Cambridge. He was subsequently 
called to the Bar, but his private means relieved him of the necessity 
of practising his profession, and for many years he occupied the 
responsible position of a Commissioner in Lunacy. He died on 
May 28, 1873, in consequence of a blow on the forehead from a 
lunatic, whom he was officially visiting. He was well known as a 
dilettante in science, was in possession of excellent instruments for 
the observation of both the most minute and the most remote objects 
in nature, and took much pleasure in promoting scientific inquiry. 
Sir Thomas Brograve Proctor-Beauchamp, of Langley Park, 
Norfolk, who died on October 7, 1874, aged sixty, held for some 
years a commission in the Eoyal Horse Guards. He was also a 
magistrate and deputy-lieutenant for that county. He succeeded to 
his father’s title and estates in 1861. 
John Armstrong Purefoy Colles was bom in Dublin on 
September 15, 1834. Until he began his medical studies in the 
year 1850, he had only such advantages as could be offered by a 
home education ; but at a very early age his mind was made up 
as to his profession, and at the age of sixteen he became the 
apprentice of his cousin, William Colies, M.B., a surgeon of well- 
known skill and benevolence in Dublin, under whom he began to 
work as a student of medicine in the Boyal College of Surgeons, 
Ireland, and at Steevens’ Hospital. Early in his studentship he 
obtained a botanical premium in money, which he devoted to the 
purchase of his first microscope, the constant companion of his 
after-years of Indian fife. 
In 1854 he took out his diploma as Licentiate of the Boyal 
College of Surgeons, Ireland ; and as he was then too young for the 
competitive examination for the Indian medical service, he obtained 
a commission as assistant-surgeon in the Tipperary Light Infantry. 
He remained in the regiment until it was disbanded in 1856, and 
after he left it, being still under age for India, he passed the time 
in reading for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, which he took out 
at St. Andrews in 1857, and he was appointed Demonstrator of 
Anatomy at the College of Surgeons in the winter of the same 
year. All this time he worked steadily for the Indian examination, 
and went in for the competitive examination for the Indian medical 
service held in London in January, 1858, and, to his own un- 
bounded astonishment, he obtained the first place among forty 
candidates. 
After ten years of service in India, he returned to Ireland on 
furlough, with the same undying energy and thirst for knowledge 
and self-improvement which had marked his course as a student, 
“ the same desperate fellow for work he always was,” one of his old 
friends remarked. Not content to rest or take holiday after ten 
years of constant work in a climate more or less trying to every 
