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sex Hospital, and it was here that the chief of his life's work may be 

 said to have been accomplished. His skill as an operator became 

 widely known, while the keen interest which he took in his patients, 

 and his kindly sympathy with them were best appreciated by those 

 who in their trouble and sickness were so fortunate as to be under 

 his care. He eventually became senior surgeon to this hospital, a 

 post he retained until the time of his death. 



In 1876 he was appointed Examiner to the Royal College of 

 Surgeons, and in 1880 became a member of the Court of Examiners ; 

 in 1881 he was elected a member of the Council, in 1888, a Vice- 

 President, and in 1893 President, which latter position he held at the 

 time of his death. In 1883 he was President of both the Pathological 

 and Geological Societies. 



Mr. Hulke was admitted to the Fellowship of the Royal Society in 

 1867, his claim being based exclusively on researches relating to the 

 anatomy and physiology of the retina in man and the lower animals, 

 particularly the reptiles. These were embodied in two papers in the 

 ' Philosophical Transactions ' (" On the Anatomy of the Fovea centralis 

 of the Human Retina," and " On the Chameleon's Retina "), and in 

 a paper on the " Retina of Amphibia and Reptiles," in the first volume 

 of the ' Journal of Anatomy and Physiology.' These are charac- 

 terised by patient and conscientious minuteness in the working out 

 and description of details and cautious reserve in drawing inferences. 

 Probably the most important and permanently valuable of Mr. Hulke's 

 researches was the one relating to the retina of the chameleon, which 

 the abundant material at his disposal enabled him to elaborate in a 

 more complete manner than had before been possible. 



In judging of the value of histological work done nearly a genera- 

 tion ago, it must be remembered that at that time the minute 

 anatomist had to work alone. Hulke was the first in this country 

 to follow in the footsteps of Max Schnltze and Heinrich Miiller 

 the first to employ those, at that time, new methods of research 

 which have rendered it possible to acquire that relatively perfect 

 knowledge of the fine structure of the organs of special sense which 

 we now possess. If the work of Hulke and his contemporaries is 

 unknown, as no doubt it is to the student of the present day, it is 

 not because it was unimportant, but rather because the anatomical 

 facts then made out for the first time with very imperfect means of 

 investigation, have been presented to him in sharper outline by men 

 who, after all, only built on the foundations laid by their predecessors. 

 Hulke very soon after he became a Fellow of the Royal Society 

 transferred his allegiance to geology, between which and his profession 

 as a consulting surgeon his energies were thenceforth to be divided. 

 Had he continued his anatomical studies he would without doubt 

 have attained to the foremost rank among physiological anatomists. 



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