382 Obituary — Sir Jonathan Hutchinson. 



SIR JONATHAN HUTCHINSON, KT., 



F.R.C.S., M.D., LL.D., F.R.S. 



BOKN July 23, 1828. Died June, 1913. 



In Sir Jonathan Hutchinson there has just passed away in his 

 85th year an eminent physician, a Fellow and (in 1889 and 

 1890) Hiinterian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons, most 

 distinguished as a specialist in diseases of the skin ; elected a Fellow 

 of the Royal Society (1882) ; one of the most kindly and unselfish of 

 men, ever ready to do good to others. Outside the medical profession 

 — to which he devoted a long and laborious life, and spent mucli 

 money and time in advancing — his pet idea was that the establishment 

 of small local museums, scattered about the country, would be of the 

 greatest value as aids to education. He himself established and 

 supported two such, one at Selhy in Yorkshire (his birthplace) 

 and the other at Haslemere, at which latter place was his home,^ and 

 where he retired after a long and strenuous career as a medical man. 



Although intensely interested in geology, he could from his well- 

 stored mind address an audience on a great variety of subjects, and 

 was never so happy as when lecturing to a roomful of country 

 people or to young folks. The pleasure of imparting information to 

 others was only equalled by the eagerness with which he sought and 

 acquired knowledge. History, poetry, archaeology, botany, and 

 geology all in turn attracted his attention and were studied with care. 

 Even when 73 years of age, he travelled thousands of miles in India 

 and Cape Colony in pursuit of his investigation into the cause and 

 origin of leprosy, eager to help to relieve the sufferers and, if possible, 

 to cure them. Like his colleague Sir Joseph Lister (both members 

 of the Society of Friends), Jonathan Hutchinson leaves behind him 

 the record of a life devoted to the welfare of his fellow-men and the 

 relief of human suffering. 



DR. P. LUTLEY SCLATER, M.A., F.R.S. 

 Born Novembeb 4, 1829. Died June 27, 1913. 



"We much regret to record the death of Philip Lutley Sclater, 

 M.A., D.Sc, Ph.D., F.R.S.,F.L.S.,F.G.S., F.R.G.S., Hon. Fellow of 

 Corpus Christi College, Oxford, at his country seat, Odiham Priory, 

 Winchfield, Hampshire, at the advanced age of 84. He was the 

 second son of William Lutley Sclater (his elder brother being the 

 Right Hon. G. Sclater-Booth, afterwards Lord Easing). He was 

 educated at Twyford and Winchester, where he obtained a scholarship 

 at Corpus, and took his degree and a first in mathematics at Oxford 

 in 1849, remaining there two years afterwards. Later Dr. Sclater 

 entered Lincoln's Inn, and was called to the Bar in 1855. Under 

 the influence of Strickland he took up ornithology, and spent some 

 years in travelling in Italy, Sicily, Canada, and the United States. 

 Later on he visited Morocco, Egypt, South Africa, and the West 

 Indies. 



' The Library, Inval, Haslemere. 



