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passed in the capital of the Western Presidency. Here he soon 

 became a scientific leader amongst the small body of men, mostly 

 belonging to the medical staff of the Presidency, who were interested 

 in the geology of the country, and here he published a series of 

 papers, many of them of considerable length, on various geological 

 and biological subjects. The different offices filled by him in turn 

 amply testify to his energy and to the esteem in which he was 

 held. From 1847 till he finally left India,, he was Honorary 

 Secretary to the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 

 having previously been for a short time Hon. Sec. of the Medical 

 and Physical Society. In 1851 he was Hon. Sec. to the Bombay 

 Committee of the Great Exhibition in London, in 1854 he occupied 

 a similar post in relation to the Paris Exhibition of that year; 

 in 1859 he presided over a Committee appointed by the Govern- 

 ment to establish an Economic Museum, and in the same year he 

 was elected President of the Medical and Physical Society, was 

 appointed a Fellow of Bombay University, and a Justice of the 

 Peace for Bombay. On his retirement, in 1862, the Bombay Branch 

 of the Royal Asiatic Society presented him with 100 for the pur- 

 chase of a microscope in recognition of his services to the Society 

 during the fifteen years that he had held the office of Honorary 

 Secretary. 



On his retirement from India, with the rank of Surgeon-Major, 

 Carter settled in his native place, Bndleigh Salterton, and in 1864 

 he married an Irish lady, who, with an only child, a daughter, 

 survives him. This marriage was eminently conducive to the 

 happiness of his declining years, passed amidst the quiet surroundings 

 of his early boyhood. On October 4th, 1888, he suffered from a 

 paralytic attack, which impaired his powers of speech and his eye- 

 sight, and caused him to relinquish scientific and literary work, 

 though he continued for more than six years afterwards to enjoy the 

 society of a few intimate friends. In the spring of the present year 

 his strength declined seriously, and on the evening of May 4tb, he 

 passed quietly away in sleep. 



Although he was not the author of any large original work, the 

 list of Carter's papers in the Society's catalogue to 1873 comprises 

 169 entries, a number that affords abundant evidence of his scientific 

 industry, and that was greatly increased before his death, whilst 

 the subjects of the papers testify to considerable versatility. The 

 complete list of his contributions to science is classified by Mr. W. 

 Theobald, his friend and executor, from whose notes most of the 

 details here given are taken, under the following heads : Ethnology, 

 4 ; medicine, 13 ; geology, 19 ; zoology and botany (exclusive of 

 the two next categories), 47 ; foraminifera, 28 ; sponges, 127 ; total, 

 238. The best known of his earlier contributions to science, published 



