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Shortly after his appointment to be Director- General, he organized 

 a system of Returns from the different stations occupied by British 

 troops, from which, after a lapse of twenty years, the Statistical Re- 

 ports on the health of the Army were compiled. He also commenced, 

 at the Invalid hospital at Chatham, a Museum of Natural History 

 and Pathological Anatomy, which, by the contributions of the medical 

 officers from all quarters of the world, has become one of great extent 

 and value. But while Sir James was thus endeavouring to promote 

 the interests of science through the instrumentality of the Department 

 of which he was the head, he was not unmindful of the interests of 

 the officers composing it. In 1816 he established a Society for pro- 

 viding pensions for the widows of medical officers in addition to those 

 granted by Government, and one for affording assistance to the or- 

 phans of medical officers ; both of which institutions have succeeded 

 to an extent which could not fail to be gratifying to their founder. 



Sir J. MacGrigor was for two successive years elected Lord Rector 

 of Marischal College, Aberdeen. The University of Edinburgh con- 

 ferred on him the honorary degree of LL.D. On the establishment 

 of the University of London, he was nominated a member of the 

 Senate. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and 

 member of various Medical Bodies. He was elected into this Society 

 on the 14th of March, 1816. 



Sir James MacGrigor was courteous and affable in his demeanour, 

 and at all times accessible to the officers of his department, by whom 

 he was much esteemed and respected. He retired into private life 

 after having faithfully and efficiently served his country for the long 

 period of fifty-eight years, during thirty-six of which he had been 

 at the head of the Army Medical Service. 



HUGH LEE PATTINSON, Esq., was born at Alston in Cumberland, 

 where his family, belonging to the class of smaller landholders of the 

 neighbourhood, had long resided. He received his early education at 

 the school of his native town ; what further acquirements he made 

 he pwed to self-instruction. Having when a youth been present at a 

 lecture on chemistry, his ready mind, deeply impressed with what he 

 heard and saw, was inflamed with a love of the science, and he 

 thenceforward gave himself earnestly to its pursuit, with the help of 

 such books and rude apparatus as his scanty means afforded. 



