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the ' Albert ' followed her consorts back to the sea. By this time 

 only two officers, Dr. M'William and Dr. Stanger, and one of the 

 European seamen were left able for service. In this plight the 

 return voyage was commenced, and, the one remaining sailor having 

 also fallen ill, the navigation of the ship was left to the two medical 

 officers, Stanger acting as engineer and M'William as steersman ; 

 and by their good management and gallant perseverance she reached 

 the sea in safety. 



After his return home, in 1842, Dr. M'William published the 

 'Medical History of the Niger Expedition/ which was well re- 

 ceived ; and some time afterwards he was sent on a special mission 

 to the Cape de Verde Islands, to inquire into the origin of the 

 yellow fever which had broken out at Boa Vista soon after the 

 arrival of the t Eclair.' After a most laborious investigation, Dr. 

 M'William gave in to the authorities an able Report, in which he 

 clearly established that the disease was communicable by infection, 

 and had been imported by the ' Eclair.' This report was printed by 

 order of Parliament. 



In rather tardy recognition of his public services, Dr. M'William 

 was in 1846 appointed Medical Officer to the Custom House, and in 

 1858 was made a Companion of the Civil Order of the Bath. He 

 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1848, and a Fellow of 

 the Royal College of Physicians in 1861. He was a most active 

 member and promoter of the Epidemiological Society, of which he 

 was Secretary, and to which he contributed many valuable papers. 

 As a naval medical officer he was highly esteemed by his brethren, 

 not only for his professional merit, but for his unceasing efforts to 

 secure for them, and particularly for the junior members of the 

 service, a rank and position more in accordance with the social 

 standing of the medical profession in civil life. 



Dr. M'William' s active and useful career was terminated on the 

 4th of May 1862, in consequence of an injury of the brain, caused 

 by a fall down a steep stair a few clays before. 



Rear-Admiral SIR JAMES CLARK Ross was born in 1800, and 

 died in April 1862. The incidents in the life of this great navigator 

 and excellent man would doubtless furnish abundant matter for an 

 interesting narrative ; but here we must be contented with little more 



