190 Obituary — John Whitaker Hulhe, F.R.8. 



It was while he occupied this position that he attended the Duke 

 of Wellington in his last illness, his father being the Duke's regular 

 medical attendant and obtaining leave to avail himself of his son's 

 services as assistant. In 1854, when the Crimean War broke out, 

 he ^was early to volunteer, and at the beginning of 1855 was 

 appointed assistant surgeon to the British Civil Hospital at Smyrna. 



J. "Whitaker Hulke, F.R.S., For. Sec. Geol. Soc. Lond.' 



Thence he was sent to Sebastopol, and in that awful campaign of 

 irremediable sickness, gross mismanagement, and gallantry as often 

 as not ineffective, bore himself, in the opinion of everyone, with 

 patient courage as a brave soldier. On his return from the East he 

 became medical tutor of King's College Hospital, and having 

 previously been elected a Fellow of the Eoyal College of Surgeons 

 of England, was appointed in 1858 assistant surgeon to Moorfields 

 Hospital. He had previously been elected assistant surgeon to 

 King's College Hospital, where, having duly served his allotted 

 period, he was appointed, together with Dr. Chai'les Murchison, 

 a colleague at King's, to the Middlesex Hospital, of which institu- 

 tion he was the senior surgeon at the time of his death. 



Mr. Hulke's earliest mark was made in Ophthalmology. He 

 obtained the Jacksonian Prize of the Eoyal College of Surgeons 

 of England for an Essay on the Morbid Changes of the Retina; 

 his Treatise on the Use of the Ophthalmoscope (1861) formed an 

 excellent introduction for most of the profession to the new 

 system of intra-ocular examination ; his Arris and Gale Lectures 

 delivered before the Koyal College of Surgeons of England, and 

 subsequently published, dealt with the Minute Anatomy of the Eye. 

 Mr. Hulke was made a Fellow of the Eoyal Society in 1867, in 

 recognition of the value of his papers on the Anatomy of the Eetina 

 in Amphibia and Eeptiles. But although so highly and widely 

 recognized as an authority on the eye, Mr. Hulke was no less 

 esteemed by the profession as a general surgeon, and the record of 

 his work in the wards of Middlesex Hospital remains a monument to 



^ Eeproduced from the Lancet by permission. "We are also indebted to this 

 paper for the greater part of this obituary notice. — Edit. Geol. Mag. 



