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an early age was articled to a general practitioner in the City Road. 

 Working hard at Chemistry and Materia Medica, he passed the 

 Society of Apothecaries in his nineteenth year, and was appointed 

 to their dispensary. Before qualifying as a surgeon in 1825, he 

 taught and published three useful students' manuals, and after 

 that began to lecture and prepare for his great work, The Elements 

 of Materia Medica, which was published in 1839-40. An early riser, 

 with an iron constitution, he could work sixteen hours a day, lecturing 

 and writing on Food and Diet, treating these from a scientific point 

 of view. Erlangen gave him the degree of M.D., he became F.R.S. 

 in 1838, F.R.C.P. in 1845, and died, as the result of an accident, 

 on Jan. 2oth, 1853. ^ 



PROCESSOR JOHN PHILLIPS, nephew and pupil of William Smith, 

 the founder of British Stratigraphy, was born at Harden, Wilts., 

 Dec. 25tb, 1800. Brought up by his uncle, they were, as he said, 

 " for years never separated in act or thought " till 1824, when he 

 was appointed to an office at the York Museum, which during his 

 time was transported to its present site in the Abbey Gardens. He 

 quitted that city for a post on the Geological Survey, and was for some 

 years Professor of Geology at King's College, London. But in 1844 

 he left that for the same office in Dublin, from which he came to 

 Oxford in 1853 as Deputy for Buckland, whom he succeeded as 

 Professor in 1857. For over thirty years he was Assistant-secretary 

 to the British Association, of which he was President in 1865. He 

 wrote not a few valuable memoirs, received many well-deserved 

 honours F.R.S. in 1834, honorary doctorates and the Wollaston 

 Medal of the Geological Society, and he died, in consequence of a 

 fall, at Oxford on April 24th, 1874. 



PROFESSOR JOHN FORBES ROYLE, son of a captain in the East 

 India service, was born at Cawnpore in 1799, and went to Edinburgh 

 High School. At Addiscombe he acquired such a regard for botany 

 that he qualified as a surgeon and went to India, in 1819, on the 

 medical department of the Company's army. There, four years 

 later, he was placed in charge of the Botanic Garden at Saharanpur, 

 where he brought together in it a fine collection of plants economically 

 valuable. He also examined the drugs sold in the bazaars, many 

 of which he identified with medicine used by the ancient Greeks, 

 and urged the Government to introduce the chinchona plant, which, 

 however, was not done till two years after his death. He published, 

 after returning to England, an important book on the Botany and 

 Natural History of the Himalayas, was elected, in 1837, F.R.S. and 

 Professor of Materia Medica in King's College, London, and was 

 placed, at the India House, in charge of the museum and corre- 

 spondence relating to vegetable products. An author of many 

 books and papers of scientific and economic value, he died at Acton 

 on Jan. 2nd, 1858. 



