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his skill and patience. He was a pioneer in cerebral surger}'^, though 

 all the teaching of his masters must have biassed him to look upou 

 interference with the brain as a very serions matter. As an operator 

 he was admirably careful, and his intimate anatomical knowledge 

 counted for something in the marked caution of his procedure. As 

 a clinical teacher he had few, if any, equals in London. He was 

 lucid, learned, and simple. Where a point required exposition he 

 was certain to know everything that could be said, but he was 

 never tempted into needless display of erudition, and never talked 

 for talking's sake. 



We have briefly referred to Mr. Hulke's knowledge of botany, 

 but his position as a geologist merits more extended mention here. 

 He was one of the first authorities on vertebrate pal deontology. 

 Out of about fifty papers which he contributed to scientific societies 

 thirty-three relate to fossil Reptilia. Of these the most important 

 are on JJypsilophodon Foxii, from the Wealden of the Isle of Wight 

 (Quart, journ. Geol. Soc. 1873-74, and Phil. Trans. 1882-83) ; 

 Polacardhus Foxii, Hnlke (Phil. Trans. 1881-82) ; on OrnitJiopsis 

 Seeleyi (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 1879, 1882) ; on Dinosaurian 

 remains from the Kimeridge Clay of Northamptonshire (Quart. 

 Journ. Geol. Soc. 1887) ; on a maxilla of young Iguanodon (Quart. 

 Journ. Geol. Soc. 1886); the shoulder-girdle of Ichthyosauria and 

 Plesiosauria and Recent contributions to the skeletal anatomy of 

 the Dinosaurs (Presidential Addresses Geol. Soc. 1883-84). From 

 1882 to 1884 he was President of the Geological Society ; in 

 1887 he received the Wollaston gold medal, the highest award 

 which is in the power of the Society to bestow; and from 1890 to 

 his death he was the Society's Foreign Secretary. He has left 

 behind him a large collection of specimens, mostly obtained with 

 his own hands from the Undercliff in the Isle of Wight. His col- 

 lection has just been presented to the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) 

 by Mrs. Hulke, in memory of her husband. 



Few men have held more official posts than Mr. Hulke. At the 

 time of his death he was President of the Clinical Society of London. 

 It may not be out of place to repeat here the words of the retiring 

 President, Sir Dyce Duckworth, when inducting his successor : 

 " You have elected to-night as my successor one whom we all 

 respect and acknowledge as a master of the surgical art, one whose 

 modesty, rectitude, and fearlessness are only equalled by his skill 

 and kindness of heart. Mr. Hulke, will, I feel sure, add lustre to 

 the post he comes to fill." From 1886 to 1887 he was President of 

 the Ophthalmological Society, and he had also been President of the 

 Pathological Society of London, and had been for many years, and 

 was, at the time of his death, librarian to the Royal Medical and 

 Chirurgical Society. He was elected President of the Royal College 

 of Surgeons, England, in 1893, in succession to Mr. Bryant, having 

 been a Vice-President from 1888. He was a member of the Court 

 of Examiners for ten years from 1880. His greatest work in con- 

 nection with the Royal College of Surgeons was, undoubtedly, the 

 formation of the Research Laboratory of the Conjoint Board. The 



