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ploring expedition on the coast of Borneo. As is well known, 
Huxley’s experience on this expedition led to the great life- 
work by which he so enriched biological science and made 
for himself so illustrious a name. Fayrer had a very 
remarkable and brilliant career, and his experiences are 
most interestingly told in his book, “ Experiences of my Life,” 
published in 1900. At the outset of his career in the Navy 
he was present and under fire at the sieges of Palermo and 
Rome. In 1850 he entered the Bengal Medical Service, and 
was in active service through the Burmese campaign of 
1852. He was politica] assistant and residency surgeon 
at Lucknow during the Mutiny, and relates his thrilling 
experiences at that critical time in the book above mentioned. 
In somewhat broken health after the Mutiny he returned to 
England, and came to Edinburgh, where he studied at the 
University and graduated M.D. in 1859, in which year also 
he became a non-resident Fellow of the Botanical Society. 
In August 1858 he was a member, along with Dr. Buchan, of 
the distinguished company of botanists who accompanied 
Professor J. H. Balfour and his students to the Alps of 
Switzerland. Though he was interested in botany, his time 
was more fully occupied with medical and surgical problems 
and questions of health and sanitation, and on these topics he 
published many articles. During his journeys in India he 
had been deeply impressed by the enormous loss of life 
caused by the bites of venomous snakes, and this led him to 
the great work for which he is chiefly remembered in connec- 
tion with the poisonous snakes of India and the physiological 
effects of their virus. From 1859-1874 he was Professor of 
Surgery at the Medical College of Bombay, and accompanied 
the King, then the Prince of Wales, in his tour through India. 
Returning to England, he acted as President of the Medical 
Board of the India Office from 1874-1895, and on his 
retiral in 1896 he was created a baronet. He was an LL.D. 
of Edinburgh and St. Andrews, K.C.S.1., and Fellow of 
many learned societies. He was Honorary Physician to 
the late Queen Victoria, and Physician Extraordinary to 
the King. Full of years and honours, which he bore with 
the most unassuming modesty, he died at his residence, 
“ Belfield,” Falmouth, Cornwall, on 21st May 1907, in his 
83rd year. 
