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employed by Government for carrying out certain 

 special inquiries, and afterwards was granted a 

 life pension of ;^ico a year in recognition of the 

 services he had rendered. He lived to the ripe 

 age of eighty-one, and what I have said of his 

 life bears upon his benefaction to the College. 

 In his will he said : " I bequeath to the President 

 and Council of the Royal College of Physicians 

 in London for the time being the sum of j;^ 2,000 

 (being a sum of ;^ 1,743 which I received from 

 the Colonial Office as remuneration for my services 

 in 1 87 1 and 1872 whilst engaged in my mission 

 to the West Indies, with ;^257 which I have 

 added thereto), for the purpose of founding and 

 continuing a yearly lectureship of three or four 

 lectures on state medicine and public hygiene, and 

 upon trust to invest the same in the public funds, 

 or in such other investment as they shall in their 

 absolute discretion think fit, and upon trust to pay 

 the income thereof to a lecturer to be appointed 

 from time to time." In another part of his will he 

 directed that the sum bequeathed should be paid 

 free of legacy duty, and further gave the silver 



