the general respect and esteem of his contemporaries and the warm 

 attachment of a large circle of private friends. 



The Royal Society has lost a young and promising associate in 

 Mr. HENRY GRAY, who was cut off by an attack of small-pox on the 

 8th of June, 1861, at the early age of thirty-six. 



Mr. Gray was Lecturer on Anatomy at St. George's Hospital, and 

 had been nominated to the office of Assistant Surgeon to the Institu- 

 tion. During the brief career vouchsafed to him, Mr. Gray laboured 

 assiduously and with much success in Anatomy and Physiology. In 

 1849 he gained the triennial prize of the Royal College of Surgeons 

 for an Essay on the " Anatomy and Physiology of the Nerves of the 

 Human Eye," and soon afterwards he presented a paper to the Royal 

 Society " On the Development of the Optic and Auditory Nerves," 

 which was published in the 'Philosophical Transactions' for 1850. 

 Another contribution, entitled " On the Development of the Ductless 

 Glands of the Chick," appeared in the volume for 1852. He then 

 undertook an important research into the Anatomy and Physiology 

 of the Spleen, in the prosecution of which he was aided by an allot- 

 ment from the annual grant placed at the disposal of the Royal So- 

 ciety by Parliament for the promotion of science j and his labours 

 were rewarded by the triennial " Astley Cooper Prize " of ^6300 in 

 1853. Two papers on more strictly professional subjects appeared 

 in the ' Medico-Chirurgical Transactions/ His last work was a 

 ' Systematic Treatise on Anatomy,* which was published in 1858, and 

 has rapidly gone through two editions. Mr. Gray was, moreover, 

 an accomplished and lucid teacher of anatomy, and much esteemed 

 in private life, so that his early death was very widely lamented by 

 his professional brethren. His election into the Royal Society took 

 place in 1852. 



EATON HODGKINSON was the son of a farmer at Anderton, in 

 the parish of Great Budworth, Cheshire, where he was born on the 

 26th of February, 1 789. When but six years old he lost his father ; 

 and in compliance with the wish of his uncle, the Rev. Henry 

 Hodgkinson, Rector of Arberfield, Berkshire, he was sent to a 

 classical school, in order to fit him for a university course, with a 

 view to his entering the Church. The youth, however, had little 



