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caused by a chill taken when attending, in the early morning, a 

 serious case at the Middlesex Hospital. Mr. Hulke was the son of 

 a well-known surgeon of Deal, in which town his family had resided 

 for several generations, and where his mortal remains are now laid 

 to rest. Mr. Hulke received his early education at a private board- 

 ing school, where it appears he was very unhappy, and he was 

 therefore quite ready to appreciate the kindness which, notwith- 

 standing the roughness of the school life, he experienced at the 

 Moravian College at Neuwied, where his education was continued 

 from 1843 to 1845; it was here that he gained his intimate know- 

 ledge of the German language, and the groundwork of his acquaint- 

 ance with natural history ; here also, in the Eifel district, his interest 

 in geology was first awakened. 



Returning to England, he studied at King's College School during 

 1846 and 1847, entering the medical department of that college in 

 1849, where for the following few years he underwent his medical 

 training. 



In 1855 he was attached to the medical staff of the General 

 Hospital in the Crimea, and in March of that year was doing duty 

 in the English Hospital at Smyrna. Here the medical officers appear 

 to have had comparatively comfortable quarters, but often very few 

 patients. Some excitement was kept up by. a band of brigands 

 roaming the neighbourhood, and on one occasion, a doctor of the town, 

 having been carried off by them in the hope of a ransom, Mr. Hulke 

 was among the first to start to the rescue. In September he left 

 Smyrna for the camp before Sebastopol in the hope of gaining more 

 experience, and here, during the winter of 1855-56, owing to the 

 severe climate and other causes, he had a very trying time, on more 

 than one occasion narrowly escaping the shots of the Russians, but, 

 as he himself has said, gaining in those few months years of expe- 

 rience. Letters sent home to Deal at this time contain graphic 

 accounts of his surroundings, but no word of complaint of the hard- 

 ships undergone. 



On returning to England he became a Fellow of the Royal College 

 of Surgeons, and received the appointment of Assistant-Surgeon to 

 the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, in 1857. His well-known 

 and classical essay on ' Diseases of the Retina ' was written soon 

 afterwards, and was awarded the Jacksonian Prize of the Royal 

 College of Surgeons in 1859. Not long after this he published a 

 treatise on the ophthalmoscope, an instrument in use in Germany, 

 but at that time not known to English practitioners. Besides other 

 works relating to the diseases of the eye, Mr. Hulke made many con- 

 tributions to general surgery, which were published in the ' Medico- 

 chirurgical Transactions,' and elsewhere. 



In the year 1862 Mr. Hulke was appointed Surgeon to the Middle- 



