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MEMOIR. 



the year 1798*. In November, 1795, I 

 was elected assistant physician to St. Tho- 

 mas's hospital, and in 1800, I became one 

 of the physicians to it, in which situation 

 I still remain. In November, 1793, 1 was 

 admitted into the Royal Society of Lon- 

 don; in 1814, into that of Edinburgh. 

 About four years ago Dr. Baillie asked 

 me, in the name of the President of the 

 Royal College of Physicians of London, if I 

 had any desire to become a Fellow of it ; 

 to which I answered that I had none. 



In 1792, my Essay on Vision was pub- 

 lished. In the Philosophical Transactions 

 for 1795, appeared my paper on the " In- 

 fluence which incites the muscles of animals 

 to contract, in Mr. Galvani's Experiments;" 

 in those for 1797, my " Experiments on 

 the Colour of the Blood ;" and lastly, in 



* Dr. Wells was elected Physician to the Finsbury 

 Dispensary on the 3d of September, 1789, and resigned 

 the office on the llth of December, 1799- E. 



