1899] MICROSCOPICAL JOURNAL. 259 



NECROLOGY. 



Mr. Jabez Hogg. — Mr. Jabez Hog-g-, the disting-uished 

 consulting- ophthalmic surg-eon, and the popular writer on 

 the microscope, died suddenly at his residence, 102,Palace 

 Gardens Terrace, Kensing-ton, at the ag-e of eighty-two. 

 The young-est son of the late Mr. John Hogg", of the Royal 

 Dockyard, Chatham, he was for some time a schoolfellow 

 of the late Charles Dickens at a small school. From this 

 preparatory school, Hog-g- passed to Rochester Grammar 

 School, and leaving- there at the age of fifteen was soon af- 

 ter apprenticed to a medical practitioner. The succeed- 

 ing five years he passed in this employ, and studyingf 

 medicine at the Hunterian School he entered as a student 

 at Charing- Cross Hospital, and in 1850 received his diploma 

 as a member of the Royal College of Surg-eons. Apply- 

 ing himself more especially to the study of the eye under 

 all its aspects, he became a specialist in that subject, and 

 for forty-five years, from 1850 to 1895, practised as an 

 ophthalmic surgeon. He was for twenty-five years con- 

 sulting- surg-eon to the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic 

 Hospital, and also served in a similar position in the Hos- 

 pital for Women and Children and the Royal Masonic In- 

 stitutions, he being- well-known in Masonry, in which he al- 

 ways took a deep interest, which obtained for him in 1867 

 from the Earl of Zetland the dig-nity of a Grand Officer 

 of Grand Lodg-e. Mr. Hog-g-, before he had entered as a 

 hospital student, had devoted himself to literary work, 

 wri ing- for some of the magazines, and preparing- for pub- 

 lication a Manual on the Art of Photog-raphy, then in its 

 early infancy. 



NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



Chas. Baker's New Catalogue. — Mr. Chas. Baker has 

 sent us his new and enlarged catalogue which is a g-reat im- 

 provement on former issues. Mr, Baker lists and illus- 

 trates not only his own well-known microscopes, but those 



