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European constitution, he read diligently for a Fellowship in his 
old school, the College of Surgeons, which he obtained in 1869, and 
became also a Licentiate of the Dublin College of Physicians. He 
daily gave a portion of his time to one or other of the Dublin 
hospitals, and was constant in^tis attendance at the meetings of the 
surgical and pathological societies, besides carrying on a close pur- 
suit of microscopic study. 
He returned to India in December, 1870, and after two more 
years of active, happy, and useful life, during the latter portion of 
which he officiated as Professor of Descriptive and Surgical Anatomy 
at the Medical College of Calcutta, he died of malaria fever, the 
effect of the climate in Calcutta, at the age of thirty-eight years and 
five months, on February 8, 1873, at Dinapore. 
Charles Morgan Topping was born May 23, 1800, in the 
parish of St. Bride’s, Fleet Street, London. In 1840 he adopted 
the profession of preparing and mounting objects for the micro- 
scope, in which he acquired great skill, so that his slides were very 
generally sought for, and occupy an important place in most col- 
lections. Mr. Topping was remarkably successful in preparing 
minute injections ; some of his preparations injected with chromate 
of lead are amongst the finest that have been produced. In recog- 
nition of his services to microscopical pursuits, he was elected an 
Associate of this Society on February 10, 1846. He died on 
September 5, 1874. 
Finally, in concluding this, his second biennial tenure of the 
office, your President desires to express his most cordial thanks to 
the officers of the Society for the kind assistance and support he has 
on all occasions received from them ; and to the Society generally 
for the courtesy and consideration that have ever been manifested 
towards him. 
