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menfcs at Middlesex Hospital in 1860 that I may not weary 

 you with too many details. About 1867 he lost by death 

 his great friend Dr Hugh Falconer, tlie famous naturalist, 

 who was superintendent of the Government Botanical 

 Gardens, and whose guest Murchison had been on his first 

 arrival in India. Animated by warm feelings of regard 

 for the memory of the deceased, he initiated a movement 

 to perpetuate that memory, which found its fitting expres- 

 sion in a Falconer Memorial Fellowship in our University, 

 to which Murchison's generous heart was always linked. 

 He also re-edited the Geological and Palajontological MSS. 

 of his friend. 



In 1868 he published his " Clinical Lectures on Diseases 

 of the Liver," which maintained his high reputation. In 

 1869 his alma mater conferred on him the well-earned 

 honorary degree of LL.D. 



In 1871 Murchison accepted the invitation to become 

 Physician to St Thomas' Hospital, and Joint-Lecturer on 

 Medicine. In 1873 he delivered the Crooniau Lectures 

 on " Functional Derangements of the Liver," which he 

 subsequently enlarged and published. He was appointed 

 Examiner in Medicine in the London University in 1875 ; 

 and in 1877 he was chosen President of the Pathological 

 Society ; and only this year he was appointed Physician in 

 Ordinary to the Duke and Duchess of Connaught. It 

 would be out of place here to record the numerous medical 

 papers which he wrote, and which all partook more or 

 less of the same excellences, so I conclude in the words 

 of one who knew him well, and who employs no language 

 of hyperbole, but shows a just appreciation of his character 

 when he writes — " Judicious in character, calm and sober 

 in his modes of thought and expression, methodical and 

 laborious in investigation, keen and acute in the interpre- 

 tation both of the symptoms and of the causes of disease, 

 unwearied in unravelling difficult questions, just and 

 impartial in conduct, plain and sincere in manner, trustful, 

 affectionate, and reliable as a friend, Dr Murchison possessed 

 those qualities which we are apt to regard as helping to 

 form the best type of a British Physician." 



David Moore, a name illustrious wherever botany and 



