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although in good health and full possession of his faculties, he 

 considerately retired to make way for his juniors, and accepted the 

 title of Honorary Consulting Surgeon offered him as an acknow- 

 legment of his past services and a mark of respect for his honour- 

 able motives in resigning his duties. In 1858 he was appointed 

 Surgeon Extraordinary to the Queen. 



Mr. Stanley entered the Royal College of Surgeons in 1816 ; he 

 became an active and industrious member of the Council and Court 

 of Examiners, served the office of Hunterian Lecturer, and was twice 

 elected President. He was of old standing among the Fellows of 

 the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, and successively filled 

 the offices of Secretary, Treasurer, and President. His election into 

 the Royal Society was in 1840. 



Mr. Stanley's principal work is his ' Treatise on Diseases of the 

 Bones,' which appeared in 18-19. While Demonstrator of Anatomy 

 he published a ' Manual of Practical Anatomy,' which in its time 

 was extensively used in the Anatomical Schools of this country ; 

 and in 1829 an 'Account of the Mode of performing the Lateral 

 Operation of Lithotomy/ He also contributed twelve papers to 

 the ' Medico-Chirurgical Transactions.' 



MR. JAMES WALKER was born in 1/81, at Falkirk, where he 

 passed his childhood and received the rudiments of his education. 

 He was afterwards sent to Glasgow, where he studied at the 

 University and obtained distinction in Natural Philosophy and 

 Mathematics. From that University he, in later years, received 

 the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. 



In the year 1800 he came to London, and commenced the 

 profession of Civil Engineer, under his uncle, Mr. Ralph Walker, 

 at that time engaged in the construction of the West India Docks. 

 He continued assistant to his uncle during the progress of that 

 undertaking and during the completion of the East India Docks. 

 In 1803 he was appointed Engineer of the Commercial and East 

 India Roads, undertaken in order to open a more direct commu- 

 nication with the Docks and the eastern parts of London. These 

 works were successfully carried out under his direction, and now 

 form the great route to the extensive suburbs which have risen 

 between London and Blackwall. 



