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tion will immeasurably surpass those that could 

 have been anticipated either by Dr. Croone in 

 planning his design for the lectureship, or Lady 

 Sadlier, his noble-minded widow, in providing an 

 endowment for giving to it a practical shape. 



The new benefaction has come into the posses- 

 sion of the College since the commencement of the 

 present year. Not quite recently, but at the same 

 time not long ago, there was to be frequently seen 

 at the College one who, though strikingly quiet 

 and unostentatious in manner, made his presence 

 strongly felt amongst us whenever matters were 

 under consideration bearing on public health. 

 Born and educated in Edinburgh, Gavin Milroy, 

 to whom I refer, became a Fellow of this College 

 in 1853. Never engaged in hospital or private 

 practice, and his mind early drawn to the con- 

 sideration of questions touching on the prevention 

 of the extension of disease, he devoted himself 

 to the hygienic part of our professional art and 

 became an authority of high repute on social 

 matters affecting health. In such estimation, 

 indeed, was his knowledge held that he was 



